Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal, 5300 ft (G.D. Haviland). Primary type depository: NHMUK, SAMC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900511.
[Also described as new, as Myrmicaria striata r. pilosa var. pallidaArnold, 1926: 239, fig. 67a (w.) SOUTH AFRICA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]