Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Imérina (P. Camboué). Primary type depository: unknown (apparently lost, not in MHNG).
Type notes:Brown, 1975: 65, records that, “The specimen placed as “type” of Parasyscia imerinensis in the Forel collection (MHNG) is actually a specimen of Cerapachys mayri [now Lioponera mayri], and the type queen of the true Parasyscia imerinensis could not be found in the collection”.