Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Bolton, 2000: 401). Primary type locality: French Polynesia: Marquesas Is, Uapou I., Hakahetau Valley, 2500 ft, 8.xii.1929 (A.M. Adamson) (by restriction of Brown, 1953g: 124). Primary type depository: BPBM.
Type notes:
The second specimen mentioned by Wheeler (Marquesas Is. Nukuhiva, Ooumu, 4050 ft (Mumford & Adamson)), is excluded from the type-series (Bolton, 2000: 401).