Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-localities: Indonesia: Amboina (= Ambon I.) “a few workers”, Nr. 2762 (W. Karawaiew), and Boeton, “more workers”, Nr. 2764 (W. Karawaiew). Type-depository: SIZK.
Type notes:Kostyuk, 1976: 92, records 7 workers, 1 queen, the latter not mentioned in the text.