Type notes:
1) Material included: Angola: Benguela (J. Cruchet); workers, deposited in NHMB (no type status). 2) Santschi, 1914b: 141, also includes material from Congo: Ubanghi, which may be part of the type-series of Polyrhachis atrociliata.
[Also described as new by Santschi, 1914b: 141; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]