Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil: São Paulo, Salesópolis, 5-7.vii.1997 (C.I. Yamamoto). Type-depository: MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 30 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens. Paratype-locality: paratypes all from Salesópolis but “collected in different dates by different collectors”. Paratype-depositories: CASC, CPDC, FRRJ, ICNB, LACM, MIZA, MZSP, USNM.