Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Zambi, 2.viii., no. 1 (Bequaert). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:Crematogaster menilekii proserpina was inadvertently included as a new name in the description of the unavailable name Crematogaster menilekii proserpina pluton, which antedates the description of Crematogaster menilekii proserpina by Santschi, in Wheeler, 1922: 154. Material in this later publication bears the data: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Malela (Lang, Chapin & Bequaert), deposited in MCZC, NHMB.