Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ivory Coast: Taï Forest, 23.viii.1975, no. 1 (
T. Diomande). Primary type depository: 
BMNH. Primary type specimen: 
CASENT0901166.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 42 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: 
BMNH, 
MCZC, 
NHMB.