Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype ergatoid male. Primary type locality: India: Poona (
R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depository:
MHNG. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0908349.
Type notes:
1) Holotype is an ergatoid male, not a worker (
Forel, 1892h: 461). 2)
Seifert, 2003a: 269, treated as paratypes 4 workers (
NHMB,
NHMW), apparently from the same series as the holotype; but
Forel, 1890c stated in the original description that the holotype was “a single worker”.