Aphaenogaster punctatissima Mackay, 2017b: 370, figs. 99, 100, 196, 317, pl. 45 (w.) MEXICO (Colima). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Mexico: Colima, 19 km. NE Colima, 1219 m., 1.viii.1988, 88-19 (R. Anderson). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 10 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: CASC, LACM, MCZC, USNM, WEMC. Type notes: Paratypes also cited as in IEMJ, an abbreviation that does not appear in the list of depositories in Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 15-16.