Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Venezuela: on Cattleya pseudobulb (no further data: intercepted by U.S. Plant Quarantine, 23.x.1946). Type-depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 6 paratype workers. Paratype-localities: 4 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 2 paratype workers with same data but 5.v.1939. Paratype-depository: USNM.