Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Minas Gerais (“dans la province des Mines”). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Dias & Lattke, 2021: 22, imply that a lectotype was designated by Diller, 1990: 70, but this designation refers only to Dinoponera giganteaPerty, 1833, not to Dinoponera grandisGuérin-Méneville, 1838.