Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Venezuela: Tach. (= Edo. Táchira), Fundacion, Camp. Siberia, Hospital, 12.vii.1989, 1280 m., 2nd forest litter (S. & J. Peck). Primary type depository: MIZA.
Status as species: Bolton, 2000: 512 (redescription).