Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Dibulla, 17.ii.-17.iii.1896 (A. Forel), Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Burithaca, 17.ii.-17.iii.1896 (A. Forel) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 53; no lectotype designated). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
Forel’s Neotropical itinerary is outlined in Forel, 1902b: 170, where Dibulla is the only locality mentioned for this taxon.