Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: India: Kerala, Palakkad, 10°47’N, 76°40’E, 84 m., 23.vi.2009 (K.A. Karmaly, et al.). Primary type depository: SXAK.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: SXAK.
Type notes:Karmaly et al., 2012: 158, state that type material, “eventually will be transferred to Western Ghats Regional Station of Zoological Survey of India, Calicut” (= ZSIK).