Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Cape (ex coll. Ballion, ex coll. Puls) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 954; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Port Elisabeth (H. Brauns). Primary type depository: MRHN (probably also MHNG).