Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: New Caledonia: Montange des Sources, nr Dumbéa Road, ca 800 m., 17.xii.1954, acc. no. 185 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “several”). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0911232.