Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Bulawayo (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907788.
Type notes:
Type locality not Democratic Republic of Congo (“Congo belge”): Katanga, Elisabethville (Bequaert), as recorded by Wheeler, 1922: 816. This last is a locality recorded by Forel, 1913b: 328 (date of publication 30.v.1913), not of Forel, 1913a: 126 (date of publication 2.v.1913).