Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago (no further data) (“received from H. Stitz”,
MNHU). Primary type depository: unknown (
Kohout, 1998: 519).
Type notes:
Kohout, 1998: 519,
Kohout, 2013a: 25, says the holotype cannot be found in
MNHU or
SIZK. However, he found some specimens (2 workers, 3 queens) in alcohol in
MNHU, apparently from the same series as the worker sent by Stitz to Karavaiev.