Ponera linearis Smith, 1858a: 96 (w.m.) BRAZIL (Pará). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers, 2 syntype males. Primary type locality: Brazil: Santarem, 54/63, 165 (H.W. Bates). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901357. Type notes: 1) 2 worker, 1 male syntypes in BMNH labelled “Santarem, 54/63.” BMNH accessions register gives: “1854 no. 63 (11 Oct.). Brazil, Santarem on the Amazon. Purchased from Stevens. Collected by Mr Bates, Alta da Chai, nr Santarem.” These specimens are each mounted with a pin through the thorax to card, the latter having a stout pin run through one end, together with a small rectangle of blue card. On the male the card has “male 165,” the workers just the number “165”. 2) A further male syntype, in OXUM, has been remounted in the past by removal of the narrow pin through the thorax, and then gummed flat onto a square of card (back of head damaged). On the upper side of the card is the number “165”, and on the underside is “Braz. Santarem.” Also on the pin are three other labels: a small blue rectangle; “Ponera linearis Smith”; and “Smith Coll. Form. 96” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, quoted in Lattke, 2011: 231).