Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Toamasina, 1 km. SSW Andasibe (= Périnet), 920 m., 18°56’S, 48°25’E, 16.xi.1990, #10941 (
P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: 
CASC. Primary type specimen: 
CASENT0012862.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but 16.xi.1990 and 12.xii.1990, #10940, 10941, 11143. Secondary type depositories: 
BMNH, 
CASC, 
MCZC, 
PSWC, 
SAMC, 
UCDC.