Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Mozambique: Delagoa Bay (= Maputo Bay) (H. Brauns). Type-depository: NHMW.
Type notes:Bolton, 1982: 324, comments that the holotype could not be found and is presumed lost.
[Leptothorax latinodisEmery, 1895g: 337 (in list). Nomen nudum (attributed to Mayr).]