Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “sent in great numbers”). Primary type locality: none given (“Habitat in Africa occidentali tropicali”): (no further data) (D. Savage). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0901937, CASENT0901938, CASENT0901939.
Type notes:Savage, 1849: 196, gives the type locality as Liberia.