Primary type information:
Type-material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Type-locality: none given. Type-depository: MNHN (if syntypes still in existence).
Type notes:
1) Perhaps more syntypes originally, but Latreille, 1802: 220, pl. 7, figs. 44A , 44B, illustrates one of each caste. 2) In 1860 Roger nominated Neoponera commutata as the new species name for the Neotropical specimens of Paltothyreus tarsatusFabricius, 1798, sensuLatreille, 1802a: 200 (misidentification). Neither Latreille nor Roger cited a Neotropical type-locality for the taxon. Two years earlier Smith, 1858a: 94, had observed that this was a Neotropical species, not Afrotropical (see his discussion), and gave Guyana and Brazil (Pará) as localities.