Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype males (number not stated). Primary type localities: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (
J. Miers) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Borgmeier, 1955: 155; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Sapé, 14.x.1828, at 10 p.m. (
W. Burchell). Primary type depository:
OXUM (perhaps also
BMNH). Primary type specimen:
CASENT0901958.
Type notes:
The Sapé syntype(s) (Paraíba State) were apparently not located by
Borgmeier, 1955: 155, who consequently regarded the Rio specimen as a holotype.