Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Kenya: Nairobi, ix.1945 (S. Patrizi). Type-depository: EZGT.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 282, point out that the holotype is a “sub-ergatoid gyne”, not a worker. 2) In the publication the holotype is said to be in IEUB, but Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 282, located it in EZGT.