Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (
L. Biró). Primary type depository:
HNHM,
MSNG.
Type notes:
Some specimens in
MSNG, labelled as cotypes (=syntypes) but collected in 1898-99 from Huon Gulf, Sattelberg and Astrolabe Bay, Stephansort, are not type-material (
Bolton, 1976: 347).