Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), syntype larvae. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Malela (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902371.
Type notes:
Locality from Wheeler, 1922: 178, who also records H.O. Lang, J.P. Chapin & J. Bequaert as collectors.