Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: S slope Mt Kahuzi, 1900 m, 5.ix.1957 (E.S. Ross & R.E. Leech). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE13686.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 19 paratype workers, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0901704.