| Authorship |
Buren, 1972:
9, fig. 2
|
| Forms |
w.q.m. |
| Bioregion |
Neotropic |
| Locality |
BRAZIL (Mato Grosso), U.S.A. (Alabama) |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, 16.ii.1971 (W. Whitcomb & R. Williams). Primary type depository: MZSP. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “a number of nest series”). Secondary type localities: paratypes: “numerous” workers with same data as holotype, workers of “several additional colonies” Cuiaba and 42 km. SE Cuiaba, ii.1971 (W. Whitcomb & R. Williams), 10 paratype workers Mato Grosso, Chapada (no collector’s name), paratype workers (number not stated) U.S.A.: Alabama, Daphne (W.F. Buren), Alabama, nr Mobile (W.F. Buren). Secondary type depositories: FSCG, MCZC, MZSP, UGAA, USNM. |
| Type notes |
Mônica Antunes Ulysséa says that the holotype is now in MZSP (it was originally in USNM). |
| Notes |
The misspelling invica occurs in the title of the species, but the name is spelled correctly, invicta, on previous pages 1-8, as well as on subsequent pages and in figure captions. |
