Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): Mts of Nura-Ellia (= Nuwara Eliya) (
V. de Motschoulsky). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to
Horn & Kahle, 1936: 183, Motschoulsky material is scattered through
DEIB,
MNHU,
ZISP,
ZMUM, and a museum in Riga, Latvia.