Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul (separate collections by Schupp, Heyer, von Ihering and Dutra) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 71; no lectotype designated), Argentina: Entre Rios (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: MSNG (perhaps also NHMM).