Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 putative syntype queen, syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: Malaysia: Malacca, Taiping, Maxwell’s Hill, 3000 ft, No. 79a (H. v. Buttel-Reepen). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
1) Forel comments that the workers and males were found together. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 160, cites 25 worker, 3 male syntypes.