Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype minor workers. Primary type localities: South Africa: Vrijburg, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 966; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Pretoria, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0905363.
[Camponotus petersiiForel, 1894b: 70 (in text, attributed to Emery). Nomen nudum.]