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.