Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: workers Indonesia: Irian Jaya, Etna Bay, 1904-05 (Koch). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:Emery, 1911g: 258, also described an unassociated male: Sebang camp, 5.vii.1907 (no collector’s name; probably Koch), which he reported, “not without some doubt”, as Aphaenogaster quadrispina. This male specimen is not regarded here as part of the syntype series.