Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: worker South Africa: Cape Town, i.-iv.1893 (
E. Simon) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Wheeler, 1922: 896; no lectotype designated), queen South Africa: Kimberley, i.-iv.1893 (
E. Simon). Primary type depository:
MSNG (worker) (queen depository unknown, perhaps
MSNG). Primary type specimen:
CASENT0904843.