Primary type information:
Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type localities: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Tamara I. (L. Biró), Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Lemien (forest, nr Berlinhafen (= Aitepe)) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM.
Type notes:Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 137, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB from Stephansort, Astrolabe Bay; not type material.