Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: New Caledonia: Mt Mou, N Paita, 180-400 m., 10.xii.1954, no. 110, on foliage (
E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratypes: with same data as holotype, New Caledonia: Le Chapeau Gendarme, E Yahoué (
E.O. Wilson), New Caledonia: Ciu, nr Mt Canala (
E.O. Wilson). Secondary type depositories:
MCZC,
USNM.
Type notes:
1) Collection numbers of paratypes are 73, 74, 80, 84, 96, and some “without numbers”; the text does not indicate which numbers are associated with which specimens. 2)
Brown, 1958g adds that some paratypes are “elsewhere”, without specification.