Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2003d: 68). Primary type locality: lectotype Tunisia: Hammamet, viii.1917 (F. Santschi). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 137, cites 5 worker syntypes in NHMB, from Tunisia and Morocco. 2) Other original syntype localities: United Kingdom: England, Kent, Queenborough (H. Donisthorpe & Bedwell), Morocco: Rabat (A. Théry), Finland: Jyvöstylä (F. Sahlberg).