Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Italy: Sicily, Monti Nebrodi, 1500 m., 2.x.2004, AA 3/04 (
A. Alicata). Primary type depository:
MSNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 212 paratype workers, 7 paratype queens, 81 paratype males. Secondary type localities: a long list of localities (repeated in
Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 277), the principal components of which are: 5 paratype workers, 9 paratype males with same data as holotype, 17 paratype workers, 40 paratype males Sicily, Monti Nebrodi, Piano Menta, 1500 m., 2.x.2004, AA 3/04 (
A. Alicata), 8 paratype workers, 6 paratype males Monti Nebrodi, nr Pizzo Scavello, 1575 m., 1.x.2004, AA 5/04 (
A. Alicata), 28 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens, 5 paratype males as last but 2.x.2004, AA 1/04 (
A. Alicata), 120 paratype workers, 14 males Mt Soro, Piano Menta, ca 1550 m., 28.viii.2005 (
G. Elmes). Secondary type depositories:
ALPC,
BMNH,
MSNG,
OXUM,
SIZK.