Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina (
L. Hetschko). Primary type depository:
NHMW. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0915650.
Type notes:
This taxon is based on a worker initially identified as
Prionopelta punctulata Mayr, 1866a,
sensu Mayr, 1887: 549, misidentification.]