Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: workers Canada: Alberta, Ice River Valley, 4800-5000 ft (E. Whymper), queen Canada: Alberta, Banff, 4500 ft (E. Whymper). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:Wheeler, 1910g: 331, incorrectly refers to Alberta specimens from Field, Vermilion Pass, and Lake Louise as “cotypes”, but these localities are not mentioned in the original description but instead derive from Forel, 1904b: 152.