Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype ergatoid queens (not workers) (number not stated). Primary type localities: New Caledonia: Vallée de la Ngoi (F. Sarasin & J. Roux), New Caledonia: Yaté (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Primary type depositories: MSNG, NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Wilson, 1958c: 136, identified these as ergatoid queens of Leptogenys acutangula (as Emery, 1914f: 399, already suspected). 2) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 142, cites 1 queen syntype in NHMB as ‘holotype’.