Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: United Kingdom: England, West Didsbury, 12.v.1919, B.h.H. Butter beans (H. Britten). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901496.
Type notes:Crawley, 1920c: 180, says the single worker was most probably imported with butter beans, “in which case its place of origin would be tropical America”.