Primary type information:
Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of
Kohout, 2007c: 197). Primary type locality: neotype Papua New Guinea: East New Britain Prov., Lowland Agricultural Experimental Station, Kerevat, 4°20’S, 152°02’E, ca 50 m., 14.vii.1984, acc. 84.67 (
R.J. Kohout). Primary type depository:
ANIC.
Type notes:
1) Original type data: holotype queen Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago, Credner I., 7.viii.1896, in stomach of
Pachycephala melanura (
F. Dahl), not in
MHNG,
MNHU, apparently lost. 2)
Kohout, 2007c records a further 4 workers, 2 queens from the same series as the neotype.