Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (Novara Expd.) (sent by R. von Frauenfeld). Primary type depository:
NHMW.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2)
Longino, 2003a: 55, refers only to holotype worker. 3)
Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 143, cite 5 worker, 2 queen, 1 male syntypes (but queens and male are not mentioned in the original description).