Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (
L. Biró). Primary type depositories:
HNHM,
MSNG.
Type notes:
1)
Emery, 1897c 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”. 2)
Emery, 1897: 570, also records the species as new, but spelled
loriai.