Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Guatemala: (no further data), on
Oncidium (intercepted in quarantine, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 30.iv.1946), SF 20968, 46-5352. Primary type depository:
USNM. Primary type specimen:
USNMENT00529550.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 12 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories and specimens:
MCZC:
MCZ-ENT00581829;
NHMB:
CASENT0912951;
USNM:
CASENT0758364.
Type notes:
1)
Prebus, 2021b: 188, reports a teneral queen (head missing) on the same pin as the holotype, not mentioned by
Baroni Urbani, 1978b. 2)
Prebus, 2021b: 188, also cites 3 worker paratypes in
LACM, but dated 6.v.1938 (intercepted in quarantine); these were not mentioned as paratypes by
Baroni Urbani, 1978b in the original description.