Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “a number”). Primary type locality: Uruguay: Montevideo (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes:Roger, 1863a: 203, mentions two workers from Argentina: La Plata which “probably belong to this species”. Because of the provisional nature of this statement, and the differences in caste and locality, these workers are excluded from the type-series.