Ponera ratardorum Wilson, 1957b: 369, figs. 1, 2 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea: New Britain I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: New Britain, St Paul’s, Baining Mts, Gazelle Peninsula, 350 m., 5.ix.1955 (J.L. Gressitt). Type-depository: BPBM. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 6 paratype workers. Paratype-locality: 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). Paratype-depositories: BPBM, MCZC, USNM.