Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Celebes”), Tondano (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes:
1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 469, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, says “the holotype is assuredly the correct specimen but is mislabelled “SAR 5” (where SAR = Sarawak). This species has only been collected in Sulawesi.