Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-localities: India: Coonoor (Daly), Coonoor, Darjeeling, Thana, and Nilgiris (Wroughton), Orissa (Taylor), and Assam (Smythies). Type-depositories: MHNG, NHMB (possibly also in BMNH).
Type notes:
The type-material consists of the Indian samples misidentified as Leptogenys diminuta by Forel, 1900f: 312.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1911e: 103