Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (
L. Biró). Primary type depositories:
HNHM,
MSNG.
Type notes:
Emery adds, “Legit etiam in
Papuasia orientali Dom. L. Loria, cui speciem dicavi” (= “also collected in eastern Papuasia by L. Loria, to whom the species is dedicated”.