Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Cameroon (no further data) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 856; no lectotype designated), Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo”): Kinshasa, Boyengue, and Ikelemba (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG (possibly also MRHN). Primary type specimen: CASENT0904471.