Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (P.P. King or Graves) (invalid restriction of type locality by Borgmeier, 1955: 196; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Santa Catarina (Graves). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes:
1) Type material not in BMNH. 2) Borgmeier, 1955: 196, reports that some Haliday material may be in Ireland: Dublin (cited in Horn & Kahle, 1935: 103).