Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: unknown, found on board a ship. Type-depository: NHMW.
Type notes:
1) Emery, 1911e: 78 gives INDIA as type-locality, possibly based on the collection data in Forel, 1900f: 326, and Bingham, 1903: 99. 2) Chapman & Capco, 1951: 51, 72, attribute this taxon to Frauenfeld; the actual author is Mayr, in Frauenfeld.