Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Suriname: (no further data) (coll. Ballion, ex-coll. Puls). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MRHN.
Type notes:Brandão, 1990b: 433, 434, records a unique holotype, but in the original description Forel gives worker measurements of 8.0-8.5 mm., which implies more than one specimen.