Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Germany: Siebengebirge (
A. Foerster), Germany: nr Boppard (
A. Foerster), Germany: Aachen (
A. Foerster), Germany: Schneeberg, nr Vaels (
A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes:
1) According to
Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in
MNHU, but
Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”. 2)
Seifert et al., 2024: 34, state that all syntypes are "obviously lost".