Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype (?) worker. Type-locality: Great Britain: England, London, Chelsea (in hot house) (A. Ingpen). Type-depository: perhaps in BMNH or OXUM.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1936: 258, Shuckard’s collection was auctioned by J.C. Stevens (London).