• Combination in Rhytidoponera: Emery, 1911e: 38
• Subspecies of Rhytidoponera convexa: Emery, 1911e: 38; Forel, 1915b: 11; Crawley, 1922a: 434; Crawley, 1925b: 583; Wheeler, 1934d: 139; Clark, 1936: 87 (redescription).
• Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 205, 266; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 49; Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 381; Heterick, 2009: 140; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera convexa gemma: Clark, 1936: 87; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 49; Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 381.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera convexa opacior: Brown, 1958g: 205, 266; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 49; Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 381.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera convexa gemma (Forel, 1907)
  Obsolete combination(s): Ectatomma convexum gemma
• Rhytidoponera convexa opacior Clark, 1936

Obsolete combinations

• Ectatomma convexum violaceum
• Rhytidoponera convexa violacea

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
• Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 9:14-89. PDF
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• Crawley, W. C. 1925b. New ants from Australia. - II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)16:577-598. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W.; Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) 1907. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. PDF
• Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. 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, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF