Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 2 syntype queens. Primary type localities: workers Malaysia: Malacca, Taiping, Maxwell’s Hill, 2.ii.-15.iii.1912 (
H. von Buttel-Reepen); workers, queen Malaysia: Perak, ii.1912 (no collector’s name but presumably H. von Buttel-Reepen); queen Indonesia: Sumatra, Bandar Baroe, 9.iv.-14.vi.1912 (
H. von Buttel-Reepen). Primary type depository:
MHNG. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0909802.
Type notes:
Shattuck, 1994: 164, cites 4 worker, 2 queen syntypes in
MHNG.