Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Mendes, ix.1933, no. 52 (H. Eidmann). Type-depository: IBVR.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: paratype workers (number not stated, “several”). Paratype-locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Brazil: Goiás, Campinas, xii.1928, and i.1933 (Schwarzmaier), paratype workers Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia, 9.xi.1928 (J.F. Zikán). Paratype-depositories: MHNG, MSNG, MZSP, NHMB.