Smithistruma (Smithistruma) orchibia Brown, 1953g: 105, pl. 2, fig. 24 (w.m.) VENEZUELA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Venezuela: intercepted in U.S. Plant Quarantine at San Francisco, from an orchid plant, Cattleya mossiae, shipped from Caracas, Venezuela, exact locality of collection unknown. Label dated 7.iii.1946, with quarantine no. SF 20295 46-2402. Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 28 paratype workers, 18 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MZSP, NHMW, USNM.