| Rhytidoponera | |
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| Rhytidoponera croesus worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Rhytidoponera Mayr, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera araneoides | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 106 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chalcoponera Emery, 1897 | |
Rhytidoponera is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae.[2] The genus is known from Australia and Melanesia, with New Caledonia as the most eastern limit.[3]
Some Rhytidoponera species have both winged alate queens and gamergates.[4] All known queenless species of Rhytidoponera are polygynous.[5]
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- ^ Peeters, Christian P. (1991). Veeresh, G. K.; Mallik, B. (eds.). Social Insects and the Environment: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990 (International Union for the Study of Social Insects). Brill Academic Pub. p. 234. ISBN 978-9004093164. Retrieved 12 August 2014.