Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype males (numbers not stated, “one colony... all castes”). Primary type locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): Imatong Mts, Mt Kineti summit, 10458 ft, 27.vii.1939, no. 1334 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes:
MCZC syntypes are numbered 1335, not 1334 as in the original description (Bolton, 1987: 396).