Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 222). Type-locality: Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Gloria), 15.xi.1926 (P. Buck). Type-depository: NHMB (lectotype).
Type notes:
Taxon originally described from 10 syntype workers, deposited in MCZC, MZSP, NHMB.