Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Transvaal (no collector’s name) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 958; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Cape Prov. (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:Wheeler, 1922: 958, provides the syntype data Transvaal, Makapan (E. Simon).
[Misspelled as lioculmis by Forel, 1905e: 180 (in text).]