Formica coeca Latreille, 1802a: 270, pl. 9, fig. 56 (s.) SURINAME. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South America (“Amérique méridionale”) (no further data) (ex coll. Olivier). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MHNG or MNHN). Type notes: 1) Type-locality nominated as Suriname: Paramaribo by Borgmeier, 1955: 87. 2) Latreille, 1802a: 271, says the specimen was “described from the collection of the naturalist Olivier.” According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 150, Horn & Kahle, 1936: 197, Olivier’s collection is mostly in MNHN, with part in NMSE. Latreille’s Hymenoptera material passed through the de Romand collection and ended up in MHNG.