Taxonomic history
Status as species: Gregg, R.E. 1958: 120; Kusnezov, 1960a PDF: 126; Bolton, 1995b: 258; Clouse, 2007b PDF: 234; Taylor & Alpert, 2016 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.1 PDF: 526 (redescription).M. R. Smith, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 1953, 61, p. 135, [[worker]].
Type locality: Truk Island; North Basin of Mount Chukumong, Moen (R. W. L. Potts)