Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Brown, 1976c: 135). Primary type locality: Cuba (no further data). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes:
1) Guérin-Méneville, 1844a also describes a syntype male. 2) França et al., 2024: 113, cites paralectotypes in ZSMC, including a queen, a caste not mentioned in the original description: GBIF-D/FoCol0683, FOCOL0683 (1 queen); GBIF-D/FoCol0684, FOCOL0684-1 (1 worker); GBIF-D/FoCol0684, FOCOL0684-2 (1 worker).