Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lake Nyanza (= Victoria Nyanza) (
Gérard). Primary type depository:
NHMB. Primary type specimens:
CASENT0911830,
CASENT0911831.
Type notes:
Lake Nyanza (Lake Victoria) is in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
Santschi, 1915c puts the locality in "Congo".