Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Russia: Caucasus, Krasnodar Krai, Gelendzhik, Dzhankhot, 8.vi.1956 (K. Arnol’di). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 25 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: ZMUM.
Type notes:Arnol'di, 1977a: 198, said that type-material was deposited in ZISP, but Radchenko, 1995c: 16, found it in ZMUM.