Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none stated, “Habitat in America meridionali”. Primary type depository: ZMLS.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Borgmeier, 1939: 422, cites Suriname: (no further data) (Rolander) as type-locality. Later Borgmeier, 1959b: 339, expands this to Suriname: Paramaribo.