Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Tennessee, Knoxville, 15.viii.1950 (W.J. Cloyd & D.W. Pfitzer). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 15 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, LACM, MCZC, USNM, UTKT.
Type notes:Pfitzer, 1951: 199, recorded that about 50 workers were collected, of which 15 were mounted. The remainder were preserved in alcohol by E.O. Wilson and presumably are now in MCZC.