| Authorship | 
Watanabe & Yamane, 1999:
736, fig. 19
 | 
| Forms | 
w.q.m. | 
| Bioregion | 
Palearctic | 
| Locality | 
JAPAN | 
| Primary type information | 
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Japan: Ryukyu Is, Yonaguni-jima, Tindabana, Sonai, 18.iii.1991 [colony 91006] (H. Watanabe). Primary type depository: none stated (perhaps NIAS, OIST, SKYC, perhaps also KUIC, MNHA, UTKC). | 
| Secondary type information | 
Secondary type material: 44 paratype workers, 15 paratype queens, 2 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: none stated (perhaps NIAS, OIST, SKYC, perhaps also KUIC, MNHA, UTKC). |