Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype queen. Type-locality: U.S.A.: New Jersey, Ocean County, Lakehurst, 23.viii.1940 (W.L. Brown). Type-depository: ANSP.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated, “from about 10 nests”). Paratype-locality: paratypes with same data as holotype but dated 23.viii.1940, 25.viii.1940, and 14.vi.1942. Paratype-depositories: ANSP, MCZC, USNM.
[Misspelled as viride by Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Bolton, 1995b: 268, and others (based on a misinterpretation of Brown’s original spelling as viridis).]