Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Guatemala: (no further data) (
Champion) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Kempf, 1972b: 50; no lectotype designated), Costa Rica: (no further data) (
A. Tonduz), Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 17.ii.-17.iii.1896 (
A. Forel). Primary type depository:
MHNG.
Type notes:
Forel’s Neotropical itinerary is outlined in
Forel, 1902b: 170.