Proceratium avium Brown, 1974a: 72, figs. 1, 2 (w.q.m.) MAURITIUS. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Mauritius: Moka Range, Le Pouce Mt, 700-800 m., 1.iv.1969, unnumbered colony, native forest (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: >38 paratype workers (total not stated), 1 paratype queen, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: >19 paratype workers, queen, male with same data as holotype, paratype workers with same data as holotype but colony no. ICA-69, 30.iii.1969 (W.L. Brown), paratype workers with same data as holotype but colony no. M-252 (W.L. Brown). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, CUIC, MCZC, NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 131, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB.