Ponera geometrica Smith, 1857a: 67 (w.) SINGAPORE. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Singapore: “SING 3” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901342. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978. 3) Bingham, 1903: 80 (footnote), cites a “type” of this taxon in BMNH; status equivocal.

Infrasubspecies

• D. r. g. anceps Emery, 1897
• D. r. g. brevispinum Forel, 1900
• D. r. g. coincidens Baroni Urbani, 1971
• D. r. g. concentrica Karavaiev, 1935
• D. r. g. curtula Forel, 1912
• D. r. g. horizontalis Karavaiev, 1935
• D. r. g. paralleliruga Karavaiev, 1935