Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nigeria: near Zungeru on the Kaduna road, 19.xii.1956, base of dead tree, S780 (W.A. Sands). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900046.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, USNM.