Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Pakistan: Karakorum, Baltistan, Paju, 3500-3600 m., 1929 (Spedizione Italiana). Primary type depository: MSNM.
Type notes:
Lectotype worker designation by Radchenko, 1997e: 438 (specimen from Kargil (Sootoo), 17.v.1929, deposited in MIZW), is redundant as the specimen is not from the type-series but rather from one of the other series of material examined.