Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: “Lagoa santa in Südamerica” (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MLUH or NHMW).
Type notes:
1) Kempf, 1972b: 45, identifies the type locality as Brazil: Minas Gerais, Lagoa Santa. 2) Original description gives the depository as “zoologischen Museum in Halle” (MLUH).
Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517.
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