Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Panama: Tolé (Champion) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 50). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
Other original syntype locality: Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, nr San Antonio (A. Forel).
[Camponotus brevisEmery, 1896a: 1. Nomen nudum (attributed to Forel).]