Rhytidoponera opaciventris

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

Nomenclature

 * . Rhytidoponera opaciventris Ward, 1984: 145, figs. 17, 18, 23, 24 (w.m.) NEW CALEDONIA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers, paratype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: holotype New Caledonia: Mt Panié, 100 m., 20°34’S, 164°46’E, 23.iv.1980, acc. no. 4094, under stone, rainforest (P.S. Ward); paratypes with same data but 100m., 300 m., 360 m., 390 m., 520 m., 600 m., 750 m., acc. nos 2172, 2184-1, 2185, 2189, 2190, 2200, 2205, 2208, 2213, 2214-1, 2215, 4081, 4082, 4094 (P.S. Ward), 3 workers Mt Panié, 350 m., 28.x.1978 (J.C. Watt), 1 worker Mt Panié, 500 m., 27.vi.1911 (F. Sarasin & J. Roux).
 * Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, MCZC, MNHN, NHMB, PSWC (paratypes).
 * Status as species: Taylor, 1987a: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
 * Distribution: New Caledonia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * CSIRO Collection
 * 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.