Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Brown, 1962c: 238). Primary type locality: Brazil: São Paulo (“St Paul”) (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900424.
Type notes:
Type-material is the queen alone; the workers originally included by Smith are not conspecific and were excluded from the type-series by Mayr, 1887: 575.