Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: major and minor workers Angola: Malangé (M. Buchner) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 983; no lectotype designated), minor workers Kenya: Kitui (J.M. Hildebrandt). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHU. Primary type specimens: CASENT0910471, CASENT0910472.