Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Type localities: New Caledonia, Ciu, nr Canala, 300 m., xii.1954-i.1955, and 2 km. SW Ciu, 500 m., 21.xii.1954-2.i.1955, nos 190, 246, 263 (holotype nest series), 267, 275, 278, 298 (
E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “a long series”), 4 paratype males. Type localities: New Caledonia, Ciu, nr Canala, 300 m., xii.1954-i.1955, and 2 km. SW Ciu, 500 m., 21.xii.1954-2.i.1955, nos 190, 246, 263 (holotype nest series), 267, 275, 278, 298 (
E.O. Wilson). Secondary type depositories:
MCZC,
NHMB.
Type notes:
Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 125, cites 1 worker paratype in
NHMB.