Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Equatorial Guinea (“Guinea Spagnola”): Rio Benito, 1939-40 (H. Eidmann). Type-depository: holotype not found in IEUB, presumed lost (Bolton, 1981b: 293).
[Also given as new in Eidmann, 1944: 469 (in list).]