Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Micronesia: Yap State, Yap I., Yaptown, Mt Matade, 12.vii.1946, no. 1087 (Townes). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: Yap I., vii.-viii.1950 (Goss). Secondary type depository: USNM.
[Also described as new by Clouse, 2007b: 214, misspelled as eryhtrocephalus.]