Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Congo (“Congo français”): (no further data) (
A. Weiss). Primary type depository:
NHMB. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0911420.
Type notes:
1) Original description gives no indication of number of specimens, but
Santschi, 1917a: 277, says the taxon was originally based on a single worker, confirmed by
Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 67. 2)
Gómez, 2022: 60, includes a specimen from Cameroon as a syntype, a locality not mentioned in the original description. 3) He also includes as syntypes the specimens redescribed by
Santschi, 1917a: 277, which are not type material.