Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MLUH or NHMW).
Type notes:
1) Forel, 1895b: 102, gives the type locality as Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Colonia Alpina. 2) Original description gives the depository as “zoologischen Museum in Halle” (MLUH).
Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517.
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