Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (numbers not stated, “a number of colonies”). Primary type localities: Brazil: Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará-Mirim, 1911, (Stanford Expd.) (
W.M. Mann) (invalid restriction of type locality by 
Kempf, 1972b: 236; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Ceará, Maranguapé Mts, 1911, (Stanford Expd.) (
W.M. Mann) (invalid restriction of type locality by 
Creighton, 1930b: 69; no lectotype designated). Primary type depositories: 
LACM, 
MCZC.