Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nigeria: Ile-Ife, 21.vii.1971 (
J.T.. Medler). Primary type depository:
BMNH. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0901013.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype, 1 paratype worker, 1 queen, Ghana: Tafo (= New Tafo, Eastern Region, Akim District, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana), 4.ix.1970, cocoa litter sample (
B. Bolton), 1 paratype worker Ivory Coast: Abidjan, Banco Forest, i.1963 (
W.L. Brown). Secondary type depositories:
BMNH,
MCZC.