Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Honduras: (no further data; specimens intercepted in quarantine at Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., 19.v.1941, on imported Cattleya sp., no. 41-8337). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: USNM.