Primary type information:
Primary type material: 6 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Vietnam (“Indochina”): Klinai Tao, 2.viii.1925 (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes:
In the original description the type-locality is given as Hanoi, but the specimens determined and labelled as types by Wheeler give Klinai Tao; Hanoi is assumed to be an error (Bolton, 1976: 348).