Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: localities: Madagascar: “forests of Madagascar” (no further data) (L.J.H. Humblot) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 1038; no lectotype designated), Madagascar: Imerina (J.M. Hildebrandt). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101316.