Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: São Paulo, Moji das Cruzes, 1926 (K. Escherich). Primary type depository: MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: Brazil: Mun. Iporanga, 1.xi.1961 (K. Lenko & H. Reichardt). Secondary type depository: MZSP.
Type notes:Kempf, 1969: 295, says that more specimens of the holotype series are probably in IEUB, and more of the paratype series are in DZSP (no. 2463).