Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: worker Germany: Siebengebirge, vi. (
A. Foerster), queen Germany: Aachen (
A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown.
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”.