Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale”): Arusha-chini, Lake Djipé (Katona). Primary type depositories: HNHM, MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0916716.
Type notes:Joma & Mackay, 2020: 368, record one syntype (incorrectly designated as holotype) in NHMB; this specimen is not included in the type-catalogue of Baroni Urbani, 1973b.