Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Vanuatu (“New Hebrides”): Santo I., Moq. Narbow (= Hog Harbour), 8.viii.1925 (
P.A. Buxton). Primary type depositories:
BMNH,
NHMB. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0911572.
Type notes:
1)
Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 86, cites 12 worker syntypes in
NHMB. 2)
Shattuck, 1994: 148, cites 11 worker syntypes in
BMNH (as holotype + 10 paratypes, but
Santschi, 1928a never designated a holotype). 3)
Santschi, 1928a: 53, cites localities on several Samoan islands (Pago Pago, Savai’i, Tutuila, Upolu), but states “the type of this variety is from New Hebrides (
Buxton)”. 4) These New Hebrides specimens are the ones described in
Santschi, 1928e: 475.