Ponera pallidula Emery, 1900b: 320, pl. 8, figs. 17, 18 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM.