Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: “Ceram 55/8” (= Seram I.) (
I. Pfeiffer). Primary type depository:
BMNH. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0900658.
Type notes:
1)
BMNH accessions register gives, “1855 no. 8 (March 7) Ceram & Amboina. Purchased of S. Stevens. Collected by Madame Ida Pfeiffer during her recent travels”. 2) 1 queen in
OXUM (
Donisthorpe, 1932c: 461), labelled “Bac” (= Bacan I.) is not type material (locality incorrect), but the queen is probably the one referred to by
Smith, 1860b: 102 (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).