Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward, 1999b: 497). Primary type locality: lectotype Venezuela: Las Trincheras, xii.1891-i.1892 (Meinert). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG (perhaps paralectotypes also in ZMUC (Horn & Kahle, 1936: 172)).