Primary type information:
Primary type material: 12 syntype workers, 6 syntype queens (“from two colonies”). Primary type localities: Costa Rica: Banana River Dist., x.-xi.1909 (P.P. Calvert) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 24; no lectotype designated), Costa Rica: Juan Viñas, x.-xi.1909 (P.P. Calvert). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.