Primary type information:
Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Argentina: La Plata (
C. Bruch). Primary type depository:
NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Santschi indicates "La Plata" as the type locality, and informs a number not stated of workers from "Buenos-Ayres, Sierra Ventana".
MZSP houses 2 W from Sierra Ventana labeled as cotype. Additionally, the Borgmeier's handwritten catalog (#3824) indicates these specimens are "Type" received from Santschi. 2)
Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 159, record 5 “cotype” (= syntype) workers from Argentina: Alta Gracia, in
MCZC, but this locality is not mentioned in the original description.