Ponera ratardorum Wilson, 1957b: 369, figs. 1, 2 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea), VANUATU, MICRONESIA (Caroline Is). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: New Britain I., St Paul’s, Baining Mts, Gazelle Peninsula, 350 m., 5.ix.1955 (J.L. Gressitt). Primary type depository: BPBM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 2 paratype workers Vanuatu (“New Hebrides”): Ratard Plantation, 8 km. SW Luganville, Espiritu Santo, 7-13.i.1955, acc. no. 348 (E.O. Wilson), 1 paratype worker Micronesia: Caroline Is, Yap I. (R.J. Goss). Secondary type depositories: BPBM, MCZC, USNM.