Ponera gagates Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 423 (w.) SENEGAL. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Senegal: banks of the (River) Casamance (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN). Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.