Primary type information:
Primary type material: 501 syntype workers, 35 syntype queens, 3 syntype males. Primary type locality: 104 workers, 2 queens Argentina: Salta, San Antonio de los Cobres, no. 5734 (
N. Kusnezov), 325 workers, 1 male with same data but no. 5700, 72 workers, 33 queens, 2 males with same data but no. 5713. Primary type depositories:
IMLT,
MCZC.
Type notes:
1)
Kusnezov, 1957e designated 2 holotypes (1 worker, 1 queen), hence designation redundant; the worker of these was cited as holotype by
Cuezzo, 2000: 226; all are treated here as syntypes. 2)
Shattuck, 1994: 92, cites 2 worker, 1 queen syntypes
MCZC. 3)
MZSP houses 7 paratype workers and 2 paratype queens.