Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen, 10.iv.1944 (E.S. Ross). Type-depository: CASC.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 7 paratype workers, 1 paratype male. Paratype-locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype male Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Paratype-depository: CASC.
Type notes:
Type-data follows Wilson, 1958g: 318. Donisthorpe originally gave Dutch New Guinea: Maffin Bay, 5.v.1944, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross) as type-data for all the material, which Wilson concluded was incorrect after examination of the whole series.