Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2005: 4). Primary type locality: lectotype France: Pyrénées-Occidentales, Irun, 25-26.iii.1926 (Lindberg). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Lectotype labelled by Radchenko & Elmes, 2002; this designation was not published. 2) Santschi, 1931a: 3, cited as Myrmica spinosior the material incorrectly recorded as Myrmica wesmaeli by Finzi, 1926: 97; but Santschi, 1931c: 346, mentioned only Spain, France (Corsica) and Italy.