Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: “Habitat in Germania” (no further data). Primary type depositories: LSLC, ZMLS.
Type notes:
1) Type locality is now in France (after Fabricius, 1775: 392, “Habitat in Alsatia”); the latter was confirmed by Latreille, 1802a: 181, “Linnée avoit reçu cette espèce de l’Alsace”. 2) One Linnaean specimen in LSLC (Day & Fitton, 1978: 196).]