Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Huon Peninsula, Mongi-Mape Watershed, Wamuki, 800 m., 19-20.iv.1955, no.859 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 7 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype.