Primary type information:
Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Cuba: Sierra Maestra, 4500-5000 ft, vii.1922 (
S.C. Bruner & C.H. Ballou). Primary type depository:
USNM.
Type notes:
Original description gives the date 1902, but
Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 432, records the date 20.xi.1922 (
Ballou) from the syntypes’ labels.