Smithistruma (Smithistruma) orchibia Brown, 1953g: 105, pl. 2, fig. 24 (w.m.) VENEZUELA. Neotropic.

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.