Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes:De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 100, consider the type-locality “certainly erroneous”, confirming the suspicion of Kempf, 1951: 116. Localities in Dominican Republic and Haiti are preferred, with possible representation also in Virgin Is (St Thomas I.), which Kempf also considers “improbable”.