Rhytidoponera reticulata

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) reticulatum Forel, 1893d: 459 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Northern Territory, Port Darwin (J.J. Walker).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Crawley, 1921: 88 (m.).
 * Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911d: 39.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 39; Emery, 1912a: 78 (in key); Crawley, 1918: 88; Crawley, 1921: 88; Clark, 1936: 74 (redescription); Brown, 1958g: 204, 278; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 47; Taylor, 1987a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
 * Distribution: Australia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Andersen A. N. 1993. Ant communities in the Gulf Region of Australia's semi-arid tropics: species composition, patterns of organisation, and biogeography. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 399-414.
 * Andersen A. N., J. C. Z. Woinarski, and B. Hoffman. 2004. Biogeography of the ant fauna of the Tiwi Islands, in northern Australia's moonsoonal tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 97-110.
 * Andersen A. N., and A. D. Patel. 1994. Meat ants as dominant members of Australian ant communities: an experimental test of their influence on the foraging success and forager abundance of other species. Oecologia 98: 15-24.
 * Andersen A. N., and B. D. Hoffmann. 2010. Conservation value of low fire frequency in tropical savannas: ants in monsoonal northern Australia. Austral Ecology 36(5): 597-503.
 * Andersen, Alan N., John C.Z. Woinarski and Ben D. Hoffman. 2004. Biogeography of the ant fauna of the Tiwi Islands, in northern Australia's monsoonal tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 97-110.
 * Woinarski J.C.Z., H. Reichel, and A.N. Andersen. 1998. The distribution of ants on the Wessel and English Company islands, in the seasonal tropics of Australia's Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 557-578.