Taxonomic history
Status as species: Emery, 1904a PDF: 111; Emery, 1910b PDF: 31; Santschi, 1914b PDF: 69; Arnold, 1915: 139; Wheeler, 1922: 754; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 201.Ann. Mus. Wien, vol. 16, p. 1 (1901), [[worker]].
Afrique orientale anglaise: Mbuyuni, dans le Pori (alt. 1.110 m., st. n° 63, mars 1912), 10 [[worker]]. Autre provenance: Orange.