Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype minor workers. Primary type locality: South Africa: Vrijburg, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 966). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:
Other original syntype locality: South Africa: Pretoria, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon).
[Camponotus petersiiForel, 1894b: 70 (in text, attributed to Emery). Nomen nudum.]