Primary type information:
Primary type material: 60 syntype major and minor workers. Primary type locality: India: Tinnevelley Dist., Dohnavur, 350 ft, 30.xi.1938, 1 and 8.x.1938 (Colombo Museum Expd.). Primary type depository: BMNH.
[Also described as new by Donisthorpe, 1942h: 250 (in text; date of publication 2.xi.1942).]