Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Bulawayo (
G. Arnold). Primary type depository:
MHNG. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0907788.
Type notes:
Type locality not Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo belge”): Katanga, Elisabethville (
Bequaert), as cited by
Wheeler, 1922: 816. This last is a locality recorded by
Forel, 1913b: 328 (date of publication 30.v.1913), not of
Forel, 1913a: 126 (date of publication 2.v.1913).