• Crawley, 1925b: 591 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1201 (l.)
• Subspecies of Rhytidoponera metallica: Crawley, 1925b: 591.
• Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 203, 266; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 44; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 379; Heterick, 2009: 140; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera metallica carbonaria: Brown, 1958g: 203, 267; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 44; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 379.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera metallica carbonaria (Wheeler, 1934)
  Obsolete combination(s): Chalcoponera metallica carbonaria

Obsolete combinations

• Rhytidoponera metallica inornata

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
• Camacho, G. P.; Franco, W.; Branstetter, M. G.; Pie, M. R.; Longino, J. T.; Schultz, T. R.; Feitosa, R. M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 5:1-20. 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF
• Crawley, W. C. 1922a. New ants from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9:427-448. PDF
• Crawley, W. C. 1925b. New ants from Australia. - II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)16:577-598. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. 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. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae: second supplement. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64:1197-1217. PDF