Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale”): Uluguru Mts (Zimmer) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 832; no lectotype designated), Tanzania: Morogoro (Zimmer). Primary type depository: MHNG.
[Misspelled as uluguvensis by Santschi, 1913a: 413 (in key).]