Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Venezuela: Caracas, 1921 (
A.J. Carranza Rojas). Primary type depository:
USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository:
MZSP.
Type notes:
1)
Borgmeier, 1955: 240, also mentions 1 major worker: Venezuela: Puerto Cabello, 1893 (
Sievers), in
MZSP. This specimen apparently not included in the type series (Bolton). 2) Mônica Antunes Ulysséa says that the Puerto Cabello major worker is part of the type series. 3) Bolton cites holotype depository as
MZSP and paratype depositories as
MZSP,
USNM. Mônica Antunes Ulysséa cites holotype in
USNM and all paratypes in
MZSP.