Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: India, Sri Lanka, Japan (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes:
1) J. Christ is not mentioned in Horn & Kahle, 1935, Horn & Kahle, 1937. 2) Emery, 1892c: 162, suspected that Formica fatale may be a termite.