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