Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Huon Peninsula, lower Busu River, 3.v.1955, no. 905 (
E.O. Wilson). Type-depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: ca 110 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens. Paratype-locality: ca 34 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, ca paratype 75 workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype but 15.v.1955, no. 1048 (
E.O. Wilson), 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen Papua New Guinea: West Sepik Dist., km. 2 on the Bewani Road, nr Vanimo, 27.ii.1981, no. 81-48 (
W.L. Brown). Paratype-depositories:
ANIC,
BMNH,
MCZC.