Ponera parallela Smith, 1859a: 143 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru Is). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 454, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) There is a second specimen in OXUM, from the same locality, and with the data label written in the same thickly-marked ink, but the method of mounting is not the same; this specimen may also be from the type-series (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).