Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Panama: Chiriquí, W Fica Palo Santo, nr Nueva California, 1550 m., 5.iii.1959 (H.S. Dybas). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZ-ENT00511411.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, USNM.