Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Transvaal, Mission de Valdézia (P. Berthoud) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 965; no lectotype designated), Lesotho: (no further data) (P. Berthoud). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0910316, CASENT0910317.