Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Khazakhstan: Baskan river valley, Dzungaria Alatau, 13.viii.1902 (Sanozhnikov) (by restriction of Pisarski, 1967a: 400). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
Type notes:Ruzsky, 1905b: 511, provides a long list of syntype localities in European Russia, Siberia, Crimea, the Caucasus and “Turkestan”.