Holcoponera rustica st. wheeleri Santschi, 1929h: 448, figs. 9, 19 (w.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Porto Limon, 24.xi.1928 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: 1) Santschi, 1929h described this taxon from 3 worker syntypes, which Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 128, cites as present in NHMB. 2) A specimen in MCZC, cited by Lattke, 1995: 149, may be from the same series. 3) MZSP houses 2 W from the type series.