Ponera mocsaryi Emery, 1900b: 320, pl. 8, figs. 15, 16 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type localities: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Tamara I. (L. Biró), Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Lemien (forest, nr Berlinhafen (= Aitepe)) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 137, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB from Stephansort, Astrolabe Bay; not type material.