Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype males. Primary type localities: Brazil: Meia Ponte, 16.x.1827 (W. Burchell) (invalid restriction of type locality by Borgmeier, 1955: 409; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Caisara, 23.x.1827 (W. Burchell) (“greatly mutilated”). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes:
1) Borgmeier, 1955 did not recognise the second probable syntype and consequently regarded the Meia Ponte specimen as the holotype. 2) Caisara is the name of municipalities in both Rio Grande do Sul and Paraíba. 3) Caisara [=Caiçara] is a district of the municipality of Faina, Goiás state (Mônica Antunes Ulysséa).