Primary type information:
Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of
Boudinot, 2014: 99). Primary type locality: neotype Papua New Guinea: Morobe, Tekadu, Lakekamu Basin, 7°38’S, 146°34’E, 600 m., 17.i.2000, primary rainforest (
T. Sears & Binatung brigade). Primary type depository:
CASC (neotype).
Type notes:
1) Original data: Type material: 3 syntype males. Type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, viii.1944 (
E.S. Ross), deposited in
CASC. 2) Type material lost, not in
BMNH or
CASC (
Bolton, 2003: 254).