Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Panama: Tolé (Champion) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 50; no lectotype designated), Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, nr San Antonio, 17.ii.-17.iii.1896 (A. Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
Forel’s Neotropical itinerary is outlined in Forel, 1902b: 170.
[Camponotus brevisEmery, 1896a: 1 (in list). Nomen nudum (attributed to Forel).]