Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: workers, queen Brazil: Pará, Santarem (
H.W. Bates) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Kempf, 1972b: 72; no lectotype designated), queen Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (Novara Expd.), workers, queens Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (
Naegeli), Brazil: Bahia, Caravellas (
Joseph), Brazil: Pará (ex coll. Saussure), French Guiana: Cayenne (ex coll. Saussure), Mexico: Orizaba (ex coll. Saussure). Primary type depositories:
BMNH,
MHNG,
NHMW.
Type notes:
This taxon is based on workers of
Camponotus sexguttatus Fabricius, 1793,
sensu Smith, 1858a: 44, misidentification,
sensu Mayr, 1862: 656, misidentification, and
sensu Forel, 1879a: 71, misidentification.