Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Radchenko & Elmes, 2009b: 506). Primary type locality: lectotype Russia: Guberniya Tobolsk, nr Lake Gorkoe, (between Belovskaya and Petropavlovsk, 6.vii.) 1896 (Ruzsky). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:
Earlier neotype designation by Radchenko, 1994h: 77 (ZMUM), repeated in Radchenko et al., 2006: 518, is made redundant because of the rediscovery of original syntypes (MSNG) by Radchenko & Elmes, 2009b: 505.