Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype minor workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Angola: Mossamedes, between Rivers Cubango and Cuito (H. Baum & van der Kellen). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0910446.
[Also described as new, but spelled kubangensis, by Forel, 1903h: 563.]