Primary type information:
Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Guyana (“Guyane anglaise”): Kurupung (H.O. Lang) (received from Wheeler). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
1) This species was founded on 3 worker syntypes, all cited as present in NHMB (Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 127). 2) A specimen in MCZC cited by Lattke, 1995: 148, originates in the same series.