Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: Mozambique: Quilimane (Fr. Stuhlmann). Type-depository: unknown (not found by Bolton, 1975a: 261; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 129).
Type notes:
There is a specimen in NHMW labelled “typus”, from Bagamoyo in Tanzania; it is not type-material as the only locality mentioned in the original description is Quilimane in Mozambique.