Primary type information:
Primary type material: 15 syntype workers. Primary type localities: Japan: Hondo I., Kobe, 5.v.1925 (F. Silvestri) (invalid restriction of type locality by Onoyama, 1998: 231; no lectotype designated), Hondo I., Moghi (F. Silvestri), Hondo I., Okitsu (F. Silvestri), Hawaii: Honolulu, on logs imported from Japan (E.M. Ehrhorn). Primary type depository: MCZC.