Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Brazil: Pará, Belém (no collector’s name; perhaps A. Schulz) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 118; no lectotype designated), Bolivia: River Beni, Salinas (L. Balzan), Peru: (no further data), Venezuela: (no further data). Primary type depositories: MSNG, USNM.
Type notes:Shattuck, 1994: 62, cites 2 worker syntypes in USNM.