Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, on San Antonio-Dibulla path, “a place called La Cueva”, 1896 (
A. Forel). Primary type depository:
MHNG.
Type notes:
Wilson, 2003a: 693, designated the specimen as lectotype, but
Forel, 1901j said he had only “a single example” in the original description.