Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale”): Arusha-chini, Lake Djipé (K. Katona). Primary type depositories: HNHM, MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0916716.
Type notes:Joma & Mackay, 2020: 368, cite one syntype (as 'holotype') in NHMB; this specimen is not included in the type-catalogue of Baroni Urbani, 1973b.