Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Solomon Is: San Cristoval I. (= Makira I.), Wai-ai (
W.M. Mann), Solomon Is: Santa Isabel I., Fulakora (
W.M. Mann). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Type notes:
Taxon based on
Mesoponera papuana Viehmeyer, 1914d,
sensu Mann, 1919: 290, misidentification.