Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Transvaal, Hamman’s Kraal, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904520.
[Also described as new by Emery, 1895o: 135 (in key and footnote) (date of publication (31.xii).1895).]