Azteca instabilis var. major Forel, 1899h: 107 (w.) PANAMA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Panama: Bugaba, Caldera (Champion) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 32; no lectotype designated), Colombia: (no further data) (A. Forel), French Guiana: Cayenne (K.R. Jelski). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 19, cites 60 worker syntypes in MHNG. 2) In addition to the syntypes cited by Shattuck, 1994, there are 6 worker syntypes from Burithaka (= Buritaca) with the same labels as the BMNH type which were among unsorted material. There are 23 males labeled as types from type localities.