Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Moldova (“Bessarabia”). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
Type notes:
There is doubt surrounding assumed type-specimens, as discussed by Seifert, 2002a: 95, Radchenko & Elmes, 2004: 229, Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 657.