Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Puerto Rico: Morro at San Juan, iii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 201). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.
Type notes:
Other original syntype localities: Puerto Rico: Santurce, iii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler), Puerto Rico: Utuado, iii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler).
[Misspelled as boringuenensis by Emery, 1922c: 106.]