Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: France: Pyrénées-Orientales, Albéres massif, Ouillat pass, nr Perthus, Châtaigniers wood, 900 m., iv.1939 (
F. Bernard & G. Le Masne). Primary type depository: unknown (apparently lost (
Radchenko & Elmes, 2003a: 234, report that the holotype cannot be found in
MNHN)).