Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Ovalau I. (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MCZC (probably also NHMW).
Type notes:
1) Original description merely says “workers”. 2) Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 53, cite 2 major worker, 4 minor worker, 1 queen, 2 male syntypes in MCZC (queens and males are not mentioned in the original description).
Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517.
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Mayr, G. 1870b. Neue Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20:939-996.
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