Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: 10 km. E of Wau, Black Cat Trail, ca 1370 m., 6.i.1971 (
B.B. Lowery). Primary type depository:
ANIC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 68 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 56 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, 13 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Papua New Guinea: 12.9 km. W of Bulolo, ca 700 m., 22.xii. 1970 (
B.B. Lowery). Secondary type depositories:
ANIC,
BMNH,
BPBM,
DASF,
DFBC,
HNHM,
MCZC,
MHNG,
MNHU.