Type notes:
Material included: Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Don Diego (A. Forel); workers (Shattuck, 1994: 30, cites 3 workers), deposited in MHNG (no type status).
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Kempf, 1972b: 31.
Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Shattuck, 1994: 30.