Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Suriname: Dirkshoop, experimental citrus garden 40 km. W Paramaribo, x.1959 (J. van der Drift). Type-depository: MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 12 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depositories: MCZC, MZSP.
Type notes:Brandão, 1990b: 448 comments that 5 paratypes are “probably at the J. van der Drift collection”, the location of which is not known to me.