Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Kenya: ca 01°38’S, 35°17’E, 5.ii.1948, high east African plains, densely wooded donga or ravine, floor cover of leaves and humus, 5500-5800 ft (1670 to 1770 m), (
AMNH Central Africa Expd.) (
N.A. Weber). Primary type depository:
AMNH.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: Kenya: Nairobi, [-1.317, 36.763, ca. 1750 m], 1945 (
S. Patrizi). Secondary type depository:
MCZC. Secondary type specimen: MCZ_Type_32184.
Type notes:
Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 59, write, “holotype presumed lost, not at MCZC”; but in the original description
Weber, 1949b states that the holotype is deposited in
AMNH.