Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Ivory Coast: vic. Lamto Field Station, (ca 50 km. S) Toumodi, 17.vi.1968 (no code number) (J. Lévieux). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated), 1 paratype male (pharate). Secondary type locality: paratypes: with same data as holotype, with same data as holotype plus nest code nos AA 285 N8, AA 315 N1, AA 318 N1, some dated 16.iv.1968. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, MNHN, NHMB, PSWC, UCDC. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0260454, CASENT0900314, CASENT0902781.
Type notes:Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 131, cites 4 worker, 2 queen, 1 male (pharate) paratypes in NHMB.