Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype minor workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Indonesia: Batjan I. (= Bacan I.) (
M. Bedot & C. Pictet), Indonesia: Ternate I. (
M. Bedot & C. Pictet), Indonesia: Sula I. (no collector’s name), Indonesia: Morty I. (= Morotai I.) (no collector’s name), Malaysia: Sarawak (
M. Bedot & C. Pictet). Primary type depository:
MSNG.
Type notes:
Emery, 1893g: 196 (footnote), comments that he believes the specimens from Sula and Morotai are residues from the collections of A.R. Wallace.