Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) minor worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“Kaiser Wilhelmsland”): Torricelli Mts (640 m.), 17-18.ix.1909 (O. Schlaginhaufen). Primary type depository: ZSBS.
Type notes:
No indication of number of specimens is given.
[Also described as new by Forel, in Viehmeyer, 1912b: 7; part of type-data from this publication.]