Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Karema, Brown Riv., no. 601, 8-11.iii.1955, lowland rainforest (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated), 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
Type notes:Bolton, 1979: 178, comments that other members of the type-series, plus two Papua New Guinea series, from Lai and Huon Peninsula, Lower Busu River (E.O. Wilson), stored in MCZC, are also to be regarded as paratypes.