Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“S Rhodesia”): Salisbury (= Harare), 18.vi.1919 (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: NHMB, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0902107, CASENT0912672.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1930b: 69.