Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: India: Poona, 16.vi.1890 (
R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depository:
MHNG.
Type notes:
1) Syntype male series also contains 3 queens, not mentioned by;
Forel, 1891c. This series, together with some workers (now lost), correspond with the entry in
Wroughton, 1892: 178, "120.
Cat. latus (
Forel) MS. Poona Dists. 14.vi.90". 2) Specimens in
USNM from Kanara, LVI/6 (
Wroughton), which bear “cotype” labels, have no type-status (
Bolton, 1974a: 78).