Primary type information:
Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Egypt: (no further data) (Forskål). Type-depository: ZMUK.
Type notes:Fabricius, 1775: 393, refers to this as Forskål material. It may therefore be the same as Formica binodisForskål, 1775. According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, Forskål material is in ZMUC.