Rhytidoponera atropurpurea

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: New Caledonia.

Nomenclature

 * . Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) atropurpurea Emery, 1914f: 396 (w.m.) NEW CALEDONIA.
 * Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward, 1984: 143), paralectotype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: lectotype New Caledonia: Ouedjo, nr Hienghiène, vi.1911 (F. Sarasin & J. Roux); paralectotypes with same data.
 * Type-depositories: MCZC (lectotype); MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, NHMB (paralectotypes).
 * Combination in Chalcoponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 10.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g: 202, 292; Ward, 1984: 143 (redescription); Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 378.
 * Distribution: New Caledonia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362.
 * Emery, C. 1914. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437.
 * Jennings J. T., L. Krogmann, and C. Burwell. 2013. Review of the hymenopteran fauna of New Caledonia with a checklist of species. Zootaxa 3736(1): 1-53.
 * Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
 * Ward P. S. 1984. A revision of the ant genus Rhytidoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in New Caledonia. Aust. J. Zool. 32: 131-175.
 * Ward P. S. 1985. Taxonomic congruence and disparity in an insular ant fauna: Rhytidoponera in New Caledonia. Systematic Zoology 34: 140-151.
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56