Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: worker Gabon: Samkita (F. Faure). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911651.
Type notes:Santschi, 1926c: 612, states that the 2 queens included in the description (locality: Congo (“Congo français”): Brazzaville (A. Weiss)), are not certainly conspecific with the unique worker.