Type notes:
Material included: Turkey: Aivaly Peninsula, nr Mitylene (Greece) (“in a pile of firewood from a depot in Smyrna, wood from Aively”), iv.-v.1910 (A. Forel); workers, deposited in MHNG (no type status).
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1924f: 253.
Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 239.