Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Algeria: Algiers (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes:
1) 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”. 2)
Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 662, add that the holotype is apparently lost. 3) However, perhaps specimen(s) remain in
MNHN as
Foerster, 1850b (p. 486) thanks “Leon Fairmaire in Paris” for the specimens.