Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, viii.1952 (
F. Plaumann). Primary type depository:
MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: Fritz Plaumann Collection,
MZSP.
Type notes:
B. Bolton cites type material as 3 syntype workers, 3 syntype queens, but the description cites 3 workers, 3 females and goes on to mention as types a holotype worker, female allotype, 3 paratypes, 1 female paratype.