Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated (“a great many”), 1 syntype queen, 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Ute Pass (
W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of
Creighton, 1950a: 486). Primary type depositories:
AMNH,
MCZC.
Type notes:
1) Other original syntype localities: workers, males U.S.A.: Colorado, North Cheyenne Canyon (
W.M. Wheeler), Colorado, Pike’s Peak (
W.M. Wheeler), workers, queen Colorado, Pike’s Peak, 17.ix.1903 (
T.D.A. Cockerell). 2)
Wheeler, 1913i: 464, inadvertently restricted the type locality to two localities: Ute Pass and Pike’s Peak.