Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South America: (“Habitat in America meridionali Dom. Smidt. Mus. Dom. Lund.”) (no further data). Primary type depository: ZMUC.
Type notes:De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 368, add that the holotype is labelled: “Essequibo Smidt Mus. J. Lund”; type locality is therefore Guyana: Essequibo.