Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: Santa Marta Mts, 7.vii.1913, #55, (Walker Expd.) (F.M. Gaige). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, BMNH, MCZC, MZSP. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0104671.
Type notes:
According to Brandão et al., 1999: 29, of the two paratypes deposited at MZSP, one has had its sting apparatus removed, and the other is preserved on a glass slide.