Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Germany: Aachen (A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes:
According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”.