Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Russia: Severo-Zapadny, N Caucasus (K. Arnol’di). Type-depository: ZMUM.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 1 paratype queen. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depository: ZMUM.
Type notes:Arnol'di, 1977a: 198, said that type-material was deposited in ZISP, but Radchenko, 1995c: 14, found it in ZMUM.