Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype worker-queen intercastes. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo belge”): Kunungu (= Yunungu), 4.iv.1921 (
H. Schouteden). Primary type depository:
NHMB. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0911592.
Type notes:
Syntypes are worker-queen intercastes, not workers as in the original description; only one specimen survives (
Bolton, 2007b: 33).