Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”). Primary type locality: Turkmenistan: vic. Ashgabat, steppe nr Mill of Borodin, no. 1685 (
W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories:
NHMB,
SIZK. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0917873.
Type notes:
1) This taxon is based on specimens of
Lepisiota bipartita Smith, 1861a,
sensu Karavaiev, 1911a: 44, misidentification. 2)
Radchenko et al., 2025: 471, cite 5 syntype workers in
SIZK. They also cite 3 male, 1 queen syntypes in
SIZK, castes not cited in the original description.