Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Eritrea: Assab, 1880 (
G. Doria). Primary type depositories:
MHNG,
MSNG.
Type notes:
A specimen from Yemen: Tes (
R. Manzoni), mentioned by
Emery, 1881b: 530, is excluded from the type series (
Bolton, 1980: 278).