Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: (no further data), “very common in various parts of the United States” (T. Say). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes:
1) Type locality U.S.A.: Indiana (Creighton, 1950a: 213, invalid restriction of type locality; no lectotype designated). 2) Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 221, give type locality as U.S.A.: Massachusetts.