Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype major workers, 9 syntype minor workers. Primary type localities: 2 major workers, 5 minor workers Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Shimoni, st. no. 9, xi.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 881; no lectotype designated), 4 minor workers Kenya: Kijabé, Kikuyu Escarpment, 2100 m., st. no. 27. xii.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
Type locality data from Santschi, 1914b: 81; Santschi, 1913e: 459, mistakenly gives “Kilimanjaro”.