Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil: Minas Gerais (Sampaio). Type-depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
Lectotype designation by MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 469, is redundant as type-series is only a single worker (= holotype) (Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 133).