Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) minor worker. Primary type locality: Kenya: Endara (= Ndara) (
van der Decken). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps 
MNHU or 
NHMB).
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) 
Gerstäcker, 1871 includes this taxon under “Insektenfauna von Zanzibar”, but the locality is in Kenya (
Wheeler, 1922: 819).