Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil: São Paulo, Salesópolis, 20-26.x.1997 (C. Klingenberg & C.I. Yamamoto). Type-depository: MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 41 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Paratype-locality: paratypes all from Salesópolis but “collected in different dates by different collectors”. Paratype-depositories: AMNH, CASC, CPDC, FRRJ, ICNB, LACM, MIZA, MZSP, USNM.