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 (Bernard & Le Masne). Primary type depository: MNHN (perhaps lost).
Type notes:Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 183, report that the holotype cannot be found in MNHN.