Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Pará (E.A. Göldi). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 81, cites 4 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 14, cites 30 worker syntypes (26 in MHNG, 4 in NHMB). 3) This taxon was also described as new in Forel, 1906d: 236, where type localities are given as Brazil: Pará, Mexiana I. (Hagmann), Brazil: Amazonas, Rio Negro, Barcellos (A. Ducke).