Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ecuador: Galapagos Is (no further data). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT094010.
Type notes:Emery, 1893f: 89, provides details of the type locality: Ecuador: Galapagos Is, Chatham I. (= San Cristobal I.), “among tortoise carapaces originating from Albemarle” (G. Baur).