Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 129). Primary type locality: lectotype Comoros: Mohali I. (= Mohéli I.) (A. Voeltzkow) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 1010; no lectotype designated). Primary type depository: MNHU.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 140, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Other members of the original syntype series are present in MCZC. 3) Other original syntype locality: Madagascar: Lake Alaotra (A. Voeltzkow).