Type material (1 specimen). Holotype, female, Cameroon: Mont Cameroun, 1300–1500m, versant S–E (white label), Museum Paris, P. Lepesme, R. Paulian, A. Villiers, Cameroun 1939 (blue label), Holotype (red label), Halictus corallinus, Benoist, Holotype ♀, A. Pauly 1986 (handwritten white label), A. Pauly dt 2007,
Patellapis (Chaetalictus) corallina Benoist 1944 comb. nov. (white label), MNHN.
Distribution . The species is only known from the type locality in Cameroon.