Type location Namibia (Prins, 1965c: 1021, illustrated, worker; Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1278, queen) - no type images on Antweb (January 2015) .
Prins's (1965c) description is at .
Bolton's modern description (1981b) is at
The photomontage of a worker, listed by Bolton & Marsh (1989) as from South Africa, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0280937
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