Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Great Britain: England, London, Chelsea, in hothouse (A. Ingpen). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps BMNH or OXUM).
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1936: 258, Shuckard’s collection was auctioned by J.C. Stevens (London).