Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina (L. Hetschko). Primary type depositories: NHMB, NHMW. Primary type specimen: CASENT0915909.
Type notes:Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 131, cites 1 worker, 2 queen, 1 male syntypes in NHMB.