Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Tanganyika Territory”): Lupembe (
K. Bock). Primary type depositories: “in collection of Sr Mario Consani, Florence, Italy”.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: Bolton: 2 paratypes “in collection of Sr Mario Consani, Florence, Italy”, 1 paratype
MCZC; specimen also in
MRAC. Secondary type specimen: RMCAENT000017798 (
MRAC).
Type notes:
Brown, 1950d: 44, also refers to a single specimen from Kenya: Elmenteita (
S. Patrizi), which he excludes from the type-series.