Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of
Wilson, 2003a: 289). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: São Paulo, ‘Sitio Suisso’ at Mogi das Crozes, ca 1 hour N São Paulo City, 1926 (
K. Escherich). Primary type depository:
IEUB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository:
IEUB,
MZSP, perhaps also
MNHT,
NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). 2) In
MNHT according to
Horn & Kahle, 1935: 69, “der Sammlung von Prof. Escherich”.