Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype (?) worker. Type-locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (Novara Expd.). Type-depository: NHMW.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Longino, 2003a: 55, refers only to holotype worker. However, Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 143, include 5 syntype workers, 2 syntype queens and 1 syntype male (queen and male are not mentioned in the original description).