Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Cameroon: (no further data) (L. Conradt) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 837; no lectotype designated), Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Bas Congo”): (no further data) (Seeldrayers), Ivory Coast: Bassam (Bonhoure). Primary type depository: MSNG (perhaps also MRHN). Primary type specimen: CASENT0904517.