Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 222). Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Gloria), 15.xi.1926 (P. Buck). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites 10 syntype workers in MCZC, MZSP, NHMB. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 140, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB.