Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Selebes”) (no collector’s name), Indonesia: Sunda Is (no collector’s name), Indonesia: Enggano I. (E. Modigliani), Indonesia: Sumatra “various localities” (E. Modigliani), Sri Lanka: (no further data). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:
1) Emery, 1900 also tentatively includes specimens from Myanmar (“Burma”). 2) Kohout, 2008a: 261, says Sulawesi material cannot be found in MSNG.