Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Irupara, 8.viii.1889 (L. Loria). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:Clouse et al., 2016: 145, cite numerous supposed syntypes of this taxon, but Emery, 1897: 574, states “N. Guinea mer., Irupara one worker”.