Primary type information:
Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: South America: (“Habitat in America meridionali Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt.”) (no further data). Primary type depositories: ZMUC, ZMUK.
Type notes:
1) De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 286, point out that one of the ZMUC syntypes is labelled "Essequibo, Smidt, Mus. de Sehestedt", and hence the type locality is Guyana: Essequibo (Smidt). 2) Zimsen, 1964: 427, cites 2 in ZMUC, 2 in ZMUK.