Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara, Rés. Cap Sainte Marie, 14.9 km. 261° W Marovato, 160 m., 25°36’S, 45°09’E, 13-19.ii.2002, BLF05740, under stone, spiny forest thicket (
B.L. Fisher, et al.). Primary type depository:
CASC. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0002257.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen, 2 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype (all BLF05740). Secondary type depositories:
ANIC,
BMNH,
CASC,
MCZC.
Type notes:
Specimens of series BLF05741 were also labelled as paratypes but were not listed as such by
Heterick, 2006: 91; these are properly excluded from the type series.