Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: France: peatlands of the Jura Mts, vic. Pontarlier, 800-1000 m. (A. Vandel). Primary type depositories: ISNB, MNHN, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0912889.
Type notes:
Parts of locality data are from Bondroit, 1920b: 303.