Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Venezuela: Táchira, Uribante-Caparo, circa de Siberia, 7°50’N, 71°49’W, 1100 m., 28.viii.1988, no. 1201 (J. Lattke). Primary type depository: MIZA.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers.. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MIZA, MZSP.