Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: E coast, Ste Marie I., Kalolo, x.-xii.1896 (B. Perrot). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps SMFM). Primary type specimen: CASENT0101998.
[Otomyrmex wasmanniWasmann, 1897a: 250. Nomen nudum (attributed to Forel).]