Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Town, vii.1912, ex coll. S.A. Museum, G. Arnold no. 155 (on underside of card) (E. Phillips). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902261.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: paratypes with same data as holotype (all type-material on a single card). Secondary type depository: BMNH.