Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Kazakhstan (“Turkestan, Semirechyensk obl.”): Dzungaria Alatau, Baskan river valley, 13.viii.1902 (
Sapozhnikov) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Pisarski, 1967a: 400; no lectotype designated),
Ruzsky, 1905b: 511, provides a long list of other original syntype localities in European Russia, Siberia, Crimea, and the Caucasus. Primary type depository:
ZMUM.