Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: India: (“Habitat Tranquebariae Dom Lund.”) (no further data). Primary type depository: ZMUC.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Emery, 1893m: 195 (footnote), suggests synonymy with Oecophylla smaragdina. 3) Zimsen, 1964: 424, cites 1 specimen in ZMUC.