Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Longino, 2019: 27). Primary type locality: lectotype Costa Rica: Cartago, 1450 m. (P. Biolley) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 187). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:Longino, 2019: 28, removes syntype minor workers from the second original syntype series, from Costa Rica [not Mexico]: Santa Maria de Dota (J.F. Tristan), as they are not conspecific with the majors.