Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Sierra Leone: (no further data) (D.F. Morgan). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes:
1) Type locality in error: correctly Australia (Emery, 1925d: 185, Bolton, 1973b: 352). 2) Kohout, 1988c: 432, records a holotype-matching specimen from the Kimberley region of Western Australia.