Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Solomon Is: Three Sisters Is, Malapaina I., 19.v.-24.xi.1916 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes:Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 143, cites 3 worker ‘paratypes’ in NHMB from Tulagi, which are not type-material.