Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Ecuador: Estado Salado, nr Guayaquil (Princess Therese of Bavaria). Type-depository: ZSBS. Type-specimen: CASENT0281108.
Type notes:
Locality data is from Forel, 1899j: 274; misleadingly Forel, 1899c: 303 gives “Colombia”.