Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “a colony”). Primary type locality: Guyana (“British Guiana”): Oronoque River, Courantyne River basin, ca lat. 2°42’, 30.vii.1936 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MZSP.
Status as species: Weber, 1946c: 148 (redescription).