Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Guinea: Nigorie, Kakoulima (
F. Silvestri). Primary type depository:
NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories:
BMNH,
MHNG. Secondary type specimen:
CASENT0101768.
Type notes:
1) This taxon is based on 7 workers of
Probolomyrmex filiformis Mayr, 1901b,
sensu Santschi, 1914d: 312, misidentification. 2)
Taylor, 1965d retrieved the 3 specimens described by Santschi; it is assumed the missing 4 are in Silvestri’s collection in
DEUN.