Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Morocco: Mogador (H. Vaucher), Morocco: Marrakesh (H. Vaucher), Morocco: (no further data) (Bucher). Primary type depository: NHMB.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1936a: 56.