Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: “type. F.Sm.Coll. 79.22”, (no further data) (W. Swainson). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes:
A specimen originally regarded as a second syntype of Hypoponera aliena, is a worker of Hypoponera gleadowiForel, 1895k, according to a det. label applied by R.W. Taylor, 25.iv.1965 (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).