Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago, Ralum (F. Dahl). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:Shattuck, 1990: 111, and Shattuck, 1994: 170, cite a holotype (single syntype) worker, but the original description implies more than 1 specimen.