Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Gloria), 3.v.1926 (P. Buck). Primary type depository: MZSP, perhaps MNRJ.
Type notes:
1) Wilson, 2003a: 779, says that type material of this taxon could not be found, but there are 3 syntype specimens at MZSP.