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.