Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Panama: Bugaba, Caldera (Champion) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 32). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
1) Shattuck, 1994: 19, cites 60 worker syntypes. 2) Other original syntype localities: Colombia: (no further data) (A. Forel), French Guiana: Cayenne (Jelski).