Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Seifert, 2012b: 100). Primary type locality: lectotype Switzerland: Petit Salève, nr Geneva (
A. Forel). Primary type depository:
MSNG (lectotype).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype queen. Secondary type localities: 2 paralectotype workers with same data as lectotype, 1 paralectotype worker France: Dijon (
Rouget), 1 paralectotype queen France: Marseille (
Abeille de Perrin). Secondary type depositories:
MSNG,
NHMB (perhaps also
MHNG).
Type notes:
1) Original description cites syntype workers, queens, males (numbers not stated). 2)
Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 77, and
Shattuck, 1994: 34, cite 1 worker, 1 male syntypes in
NHMB. 3) Other original syntype localities: Switzerland: vic. Geneva (
Tournier), vic. Geneva (
Abeille de Perrin).