| Authorship | Donisthorpe, 1949h: 411 | 
|---|---|
| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Australasia | 
| Locality | NEW GUINEA (Indonesia) | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”): Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE06993. | 
| Type notes | Donisthorpe, 1949h says “a single worker”, but Wang, 2003a: 455, cites the existence of a second worker in CASC, with the same data as the holotype. | 
| Pristomyrmex nitidissimus | Species | Valid | Original combination |