Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Pará, Belém (no collector’s name, probably A. Schulz) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 118). Primary type depositories: MSNG, USNM.
Type notes:
1) Shattuck, 1994: 62, cites 2 worker syntypes USNM. 2) Other original syntype localities: Bolivia: Beni, Misiones Mosetenes (L. Balzan), Peru: (no further data), Venezuela: (no further data).