Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Prebus, 2021b: 368). Type-locality: lectotype Guatemala: Mocá, W slope of Volcán de Atitlán, 3500 ft, 22.iii.1935 (
W.M. Wheeler). Type-depository:
MCZC. Type-specimen: M.C.Z. co-type 22801 (lectotype). (Source:
Prebus, 2021b: 368.)
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 3 paralectotype workers. Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depository:
LACM. Paratype-specimen:
LACMENT181956. (Source:
Prebus, 2021b: 369.)
Type notes:
Wheeler originally described this taxon from “numerous specimens from four colonies”;
Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 427, counted 40 workers, 10 queens in
MCZC.