Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype queen, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Cameroon: (no further data) (L. Conradt). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:Emery, 1899d: 496, excluded the workers from the type series, saying, “I consider the queen and the male as type of the species and genus, in case the worker could be something separate”.