Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Switzerland: (no further data) (A. Forel). Primary type depository: NHML.
Type notes:
1) This taxon is based on workers of “the large variety of Formica fusca with reddish thorax”, in Forel, 1874: 54. 2) Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 261, cite 4 worker syntypes in NHML, labelled “Vaux”.