Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Jacarepaguá (Taquara), 6.iv.1953 (
T. Borgmeier). Primary type depository:
MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: Brazil: Paraná, Rolândia, 5.iv.1953 (
W.W. Kempf). Secondary type depository:
MZSP.
Type notes:
The
MZSP Ant Collection has the type specimens of three of the four species described by
Borgmeier, 1959a —
Heteroponera angulata,
Pheidole sensitiva, and
Proceratium brasiliense. However, the types of
Solenopsis hostilis could not be located in the collection. (Mônica Antunes Ulysséa)