Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Lebanon: Sarepta (Christoph), Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan: Syr Darya (Stenroos), Turkey: Mersina (M. Holtz), Georgia: Tiflis (Christoph), plus “various places in Syria and Asia Minor” (no further data). Primary type depository: MSNG.