Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Mongi Watershed, Huon Peninsula, Joangeng, 7-8.iv.1955, 1500 m., no. 746 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 7 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but no. 751. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.