Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes:Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452, cites 1 major worker in OXUM (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978); original series contained both major(s) and minor(s), but apparently only 1 specimen has survived.