Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Azerbaijan: Talysh, viii.1936, no. 7139 (L.V. Arnol’di). Primary type depository: ZISP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 20 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: paratypes with same data as holotype, and “described from 4 nests (Talysh, 1929, 1936)”. Secondary type depositories: RASM, ZISP. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0917337.
[Formica fusca subsp. hyrcanaArnol'di, 1948a: 212 (in list) (and elsewhere in lists and text). Nomen nudum.]