Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous examples”). Primary type localities: Brazil: Minas Gerais, Ypiranga (H. Luederwaldt) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 20; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Minas Gerais, Christina (H. Luederwaldt). Primary type depositories: MZSP, NHMB.
Type notes:Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 143, cites 11 worker syntypes in NHMB.