Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Mozambique: Quilimane (
F. Stuhlmann). Primary type depository: unknown (not found by
Bolton, 1975a: 261, or by
Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 129).
Type notes:
There is a specimen in
NHMW labelled “typus”, from Bagamoyo in Tanzania; it is not type-material as the only locality mentioned in the original description is Quilimane in Mozambique.