Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Namibia (“German SW Africa”): Damaraland (L. Péringuey). Primary type depositories: MNHU, MSNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0905419, CASENT0905420.
Type notes:
Type locality data from Wheeler, 1922: 986 (repeated in Robertson & Zachariades, 1997: 7); original description gives no locality data.