Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes:
A specimen in OXUM, labeled “Aru 50” and with a Donisthorpe type label, is not a type, and not a specimen of Echinopla serrata. It entirely fails to match the original description, but compares well with a syntype of Echinopla australisForel, 1901m that is in BMNH.