Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Shattuck, 1992c: 153). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Massachusetts, Mt Tom, nr Springfield, 27.viii.1897 (G. Dimmock). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites 2 worker, 5 queen syntypes. 2) Cover & Rabeling, 2024: 128, state that the paralectotype queens belong to Tapinoma shattucki.