Ponera mordax Smith, 1858a: 98 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio (= Rio de Janeiro), “57/63” (H. Clark). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900547. Type notes: BMNH accessions register gives: “1857 no. 63 (June 22). Province of Rio. Presented by Rev. Hamlet Clark” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).