Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio Negro (Humboldt). Primary type depository: perhaps MNHU.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) MacKay, 1993b: 97, gives the type locality as Venezuela, Rio Negro, initially cited by Kempf, 1972b: 143. Mackay also gives the publication date as 1832, an incorrect date originally given by Dalla Torre, 1893: 161, and repeated in Forel, 1895b: 108, and Kempf, 1972b: 143.