Rhopalopone major Emery, 1901k: 154 (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”): Sattelberg (L. Biró). Primary type depositories: MSNG, NHMB (perhaps also HNHM). Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 129, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB.