Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Botany Gardens, Legon, Accra Dist., 8.vii.1970 (D. Leston). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902424.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 34 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, LACM, MCZC, MHNG, MRSN, MZSP, UGLG.
Type notes:Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 59, also record paratypes as present in NHMB, but these are not mentioned by Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 131.