Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Colombia: Valle del Cauca, Rio San Juan del Digua, ca Queremal, 1300 m., 16.vi.1971 (
W.L. Brown & Chaplin). Type-depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 13 paratype workers. Paratype-locality: 5 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 4 paratype workers Valle del Cauca, El Topazio, Farallones de Cali Park, ca Pance, 1550 m., 31.xii.1981, no. 2150 (
J. Lattke), 4 paratype workers Valle del Cauca, Munic. Cali, Pance, 1700 m., 28.vii.1973 (
W.L. Brown). Paratype-depositories:
MCZC,
MIZA,
MZSP.
Type notes:
Brandão, 1990b: 433, comments that
MIZA has 21 more workers of the El Topazio series.