Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Nevada, nr Las Vegas, Charleston Mts, Kyle Canyon, 7700 ft, 23.vii.1954, no. NEV-607 (
A.C. Cole). Primary type depository: 
USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated, “6 colonies”). Secondary type locality: same data as holotype, nos. NEV-595, -604, -605, -607, -608, -622. Secondary type depositories: 
AMNH, 
FMNH, 
LACM, 
MCZC, 
USNM.