Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 2 syntype queens, syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: Kyrgyzstan: Karaka (= Karkara), E Issyk-kul, upper reaches of Kageni River (tributary of Ili River), ca 1950 m., 16.viii.1925, no. 4003 (N. Kusnetzov). Primary type depositories: SIZK, ZMUM.
Type notes:Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 125, record 8 workers, 2 queens, 9 males.