Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Turkey: Anatolia, Bodrum (
R. Varriale), Greece: Egeo I. (
R. Varriale?). Primary type depository:
MSNG.
Type notes:
Emery, 1921b: 214, comments that he had also seen specimens from Isole dei Principi, Sea of Marmara (Turkey), and Rhodes I. and Crete I. (Greece).