Primary type information:
Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo belge”): Haut Congo, Basankusu, Bongandanga, 9.i.1932 (G. Vinall) (received from Donisthorpe). Primary type depository: NHMB (perhaps also BMNH). Primary type specimen: CASENT0911322.
Type notes:
1) 4 workers cited in original description. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 62, cites 12 worker syntypes in NHMB; these probably include specimens from a second sending by Vinall, 24.vii.1932, reported by Poulton, 1933: 58.
[Also described as new by Santschi, in Poulton, 1933: 58 (footnote) (date of publication 21.iv.1933).]