Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 259). Primary type locality: lectotype China: Tibet, tributary of River Dza-chyu, basin River Goluboi (= Yangtze), 12-12500’ and 13000’, v.1901 (P.K. Kozlov). Primary type depository: ZISP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 61 paralectotype workers. Secondary type localities: 34 paralectotype workers with same data as holotype, 27 paralectotype workers E Tibet, valley River Goluboi (= Yangtze), Kam, iii.1901 (P.K. Kozlov). Secondary type depositories: SIZK, ZISP, ZMUM.
Type notes:
1) Kostyuk, 1976: 94, cites 1 worker syntype in SIZK. 2) Number of paralectotypes modified by Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 176.