Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM, MSNG.
Type notes:
Some specimens in MSNG, labelled as cotypes (=syntypes) but collected in 1898-99 from Huon Gulf, Sattelberg and Astrolabe Bay, Stephansort, are not type-material (Bolton, 1976: 347).