Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil (no further data). Type-depository: BMNH.
Type notes:
In BMNH are two Anochetus quadrispinosus workers with the data, “Para 48/133.” The Accessions Register for 1848 no. 133 has, “Para. B(ought)t of Stevens. Collected by Mssrs Bates & Wallace.” One of these specimens is sublabelled “172.” It is suspected that all three together constituted the original syntype series.