Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Venezuela: Edo. Mérida, ca Estación de Teleférico “La Montaña”, 2440 m., 27.vi.1989 (
S. & J. Peck). Primary type depository:
MIZA.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 15 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 6 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 7 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 2450 m., 26.vii.1989, 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen Venezuela: Edo. Lara, 9 km. SE Babacoas, 9°46’N, 70°00’W, 2000 m., 22.viii.1987, no. 8920-30 (
P.S. Ward), 1 paratype worker Colombia: Depto Risaralda, Transecto Parque Los Nevados, vertiente oeste, 2500 m., 1980, TPN 42 (
T. van der Hammen). Secondary type depositories:
BMNH,
IAVH,
LACM,
MCZC,
MIZA,
MZSP,
PSWC,
USNM.