Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of 
Ward, 1989a: 444). Primary type locality: lectotype Guyana (“British Guiana”): Berbice, Blairmont Plantation, 14.ii.1924 (
H.E. Box). Primary type depository: 
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paralectotype workers, paralectotype queens, paralectotype males (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: 
MCZC, 
NHMB.
Type notes:
Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 90, cites 3 worker syntypes in 
NHMB.