Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: India: (no further data) “common in all parts of India…very destructive and troublesome to the naturalist” (T.C. Jerdon). Primary type depository: no type-material known to exist.
Type notes:Sharaf et al., 2016a: 16, accidentaly refer to the lectotype of Trichomyrmex vexator as the lectotype of Trichomyrmex destructor.]