Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: New Caledonia: Chapeau Gendarme (nr Yahoué), 5-7.xii.1954, no. 65 (
E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “a long series”), 1 paratype ergatoid queen. Secondary type localities: paratype workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype worker New Caledonia: Mt Mou, 10-12.xii.1954 (
E.O. Wilson), paratype workers, 1 paratype ergatoid queen New Caledonia: Ciu, nr Mt Canala, xii.1954-i.1955, no. 245 (
E.O. Wilson). Secondary type depositories:
BMNH,
MCZC,
NHMB. Secondary type specimen:
CASENT0902763.
Type notes:
1) Ergatoid queen lost (
Wilson, 1957a: 7);
Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 125, cites 3 worker paratypes in
NHMB. 2) Collection dates from
Wilson, 1958c: 107-109.