Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Morobe Dist., Didiman Creek, Lae, 8.v.1955, no. 979 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 8 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MCZC.