Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Itapagipe, 19.xi.1925 (T. Borgmeier). Primary type depository: MZSP.
Type notes:
1) Wilson, 2003a: 779, says that type material of this taxon could not be found. 2) All syntypes are at MZSP.
[Pheidole pubiventris var. foederalisBorgmeier, 1927c: 87. Nomen nudum.]