Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, 1 syntype ergatoid queen, syntype males (numbers of workers and males not stated, “masses of workers, accompanied by males”). Primary type locality: Solomon Is: Three Sisters Is, Malapaina I., 19.v.-24.xi.1916 (
W.M. Mann). Primary type depositories:
MCZC,
USNM.
Type notes:
Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 141, cites 3 worker ‘syntypes’ in
NHMB; these specimens are from Wai-ai and are not type material.