Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Venezuela: in U.S. Plant Quarantine at San Francisco, from an orchid plant,
Cattleya mossiae, shipped from Caracas, Venezuela, exact locality of collection unknown. Label dated 7.iii.1946, with quarantine no. SF 20295 46-2402. Primary type depository:
USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 28 paratype workers, 18 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories:
MCZC,
MZSP,
NHMW,
USNM.