Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay, 1993b: 49). Primary type locality: lectotype Guyana (“British Guiana”): Canale sul Demerara (N. Beccari) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 118; no lectotype designated). Primary type depository: IEUB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: IEUB, MZUF.
Type notes:
Other original syntype localities: 3 queens Guyana: Baboo camp and Haimara camp (N. Beccari), and “numerous” workers, queens Peru: Pachitea (no collector’s name), Bolivia: Songo and Coroico (no collector’s name).