Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 211). Primary type locality: lectotype Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, St-Antonio, 21.ii.1896 (A. Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype males. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB, NHMW.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 135, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Other original syntype locality: Colombia: foot of the Sierra, Ouriheka, nr Rio Frio, 10.iii.1896 (A. Forel).