Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Solomon Is: Ugi, Pawa, v.-xi.1916 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depositories: MCZC, USNM.
Type notes:LaPolla, 2004a: 31, cites 7 worker syntypes, plus 3 other specimens (BMNH) that are not from the type series.