Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: Sri Lanka (no further data). Type-depository: MSNG.
Type notes:Emery, 1893h: 240 supplies the missing Sri Lanka data: Nawalapitya, i.-ii.1892 (E. Simon).
[Also described as new by Emery, 1893h: 240 (attributed to Motschoulsky).]