Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Venezuela: Edo. Miranda, Sartenejas, Universidad Simón Bolívar, 1300 m., x.1993, in epiphyte Tillandsia pruinosa (W. Goitía). Primary type depository: MIZA.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype queen Edo Miranda, La Busca, cerca Caucagua, 1.vi.1994 (W. Goitía). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MIZA.
Status as species: Bolton, 2000: 565 (redescription).