Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: queen Papua New Guinea: Paumomu River (L. Loria), worker locality not stated. Primary type depositories: HNHM, MSNG.
Type notes:
Also described as new by Emery, 1900b: 331 (4 worker, 1 queen syntypes), who cites queen locality as above, workers Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Seleo I., nr Berlinhafen (= Aitepe) (L. Biró).
[Rhopalopone epinotalisEmery, 1897: 550. Nomen nudum.]