Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Sumatra, Lampongs, Wai Lima (H. Karny & H.C. Siebers). Primary type depository: unknown (not in MCZC, NNML, USNM).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown (not in MCZC, NNML, USNM).
Type notes:
1) In the original description Brues, 1925 thought the specimens may be queens, and felt unable to place them to family. 2) Petersen, 1968: 591, later identified them as leptanilline males. 3) Petersen, 1968: 592, suggests that the types may have been given to C.T. Brues; whereabouts now unknown.