Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none stated, “Habitat in America meridionali” (Rolander). Primary type depository: ZMLS.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) De Geer, 1773: 608, gives Suriname as type-locality; expanded to Suriname: (Rolander) by Borgmeier, 1939: 422, and to Suriname: Paramaribo by Borgmeier, 1959b: 359.