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