Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: Depto Cundinamarca, beside Bogotá-Villavicencio Highway, nr km. 79 (at border with Depto Meta), Rio Negro ravine, ca 1100 m., 1.vii.1976 (I. Zenner-Polania & W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated, “type-nest”). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.