Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Eritrea: Asmara, 1906 (
K. Escherich) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Wheeler, 1922: 868; no lectotype designated), Eritrea: Nefassit, iii.1906 (
K. Escherich), Eritrea: Ghinda, 1906 (
K. Escherich). Primary type depositories:
MHNG,
SIZK. Primary type specimens:
CASENT0908723,
CASENT0916998.
Type notes:
A dealate queen (
CASENT0916999) in
SIZK, labelled "syntypus", is not type material because the original description did not include this caste.