Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Zimbabwe: Bulawayo, Hillside, 8.ii.1914, in nest of Solenopsis sp. (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900632.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls, spray forest, iii.1969 (W.L. Brown). Secondary type depository: BMNH.
Status as species: Bolton, 2000: 594 (redescription).