Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: New Britain, St Paul’s, Baining Mts, Gazelle Peninsula, 350 m., 5.ix.1955 (
J.L. Gressitt). Type-depository:
BPBM.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 6 paratype workers. Paratype-locality: 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 2 paratype workers Vanuatu (“New Hebrides”): Ratard Plantation, 8 km. SW Luganville, Espiritu Santo, 7-13.i.1955, acc. no. 348 (
E.O. Wilson), 1 paratype worker Micronesia: Caroline Is, Yap I. (
R.J. Goss). Paratype-depositories:
BPBM,
MCZC,
USNM.