Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data) (H.W. Bates?). Primary type depository: unknown (syntypes lost).
Type notes:
1) Smith, 1862d: 410, gives the type-locality as Brazil (Amazonas). 2) Syntypes not in BMNH or OXUM, according to De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 493.