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.