Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Morobe Dist., Huon Peninsula, lower Busu River, 5.v.1955, no. 945 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 17 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 6 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 11 paratype workers Papua New Guinea: Northern Dist., 8 km. S Kokoda, 800 m. (R.W. Taylor). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC.