Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Nosy Be, 2 km. ENE Andoany (= Hellville), <5 m. (13°24’S, 48°18’E), 4.v.1989, #10492 (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0106134.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: paratypes with same data as holotype but #10492, 10493, 10494, 1 paratype worker Nosy Be airport, 21.ii.1991 (G.D. Alpert). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, PSWC, SAMC.