Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker (lacks head). Primary type locality: Hawaii: Oahu. Honolulu, Experiment Station H.S.P.A., ii.1941 (R.H. Van Zwaluwenburg). Primary type depository: BPBM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0249113.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but 26.x.1945.
Type notes:
Originally 5 workers but Williams states that “three of the five specimens collected are not now available".