Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Radchenko & Elmes, 2009b: 509). Primary type locality lectotype Kazakhstan: Kirgiz Steppe, gor. Mal. Bogdo, 4.vi.1902 (M.D. Ruzsky). Primary type depository: ZISP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype workers. Secondary type localities: 2 paralectotype workers with same data as lectotype, 2 paralectotype workers Kazakhstan: Turgai, Kirgiz Steppe, no. 26 (G. Stange). Secondary type depositories: MSNG, ZISP, ZMUM.
Type notes:
A specimen labelled as lectotype by Arnol’di, cited by Seifert, 1988b: 23, Radchenko, 1994f: 78, was never published.