Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of 
Snelling, 1973c: 21 (in text)). Primary type locality: Canada: British Columbia, Yale (
G. Dieck) (invalid restriction of type locality by 
Creighton, 1950a: 136; no lectotype designated) Primary type depository: 
MCZC (lectotype).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Type localities: Canada: British Columbia, Yale (
G. Dieck) (invalid restriction of type locality by 
Creighton, 1950a: 136; no lectotype designated), 2 workers U.S.A.: Pennsylvania, Beatty (
T. Pergande). Secondary type depositories: 
MCZC (designated paralectotype), 
MSNG, 
USNM.
Type notes:
1) Original description has syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). 2) 
Snelling, 1973c: 21 (in text), does not state the localities of the lectotype and paralectotype, but from the lectotype label information provided it is evident that it is from the British Columbia locality.