Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Russia: Dagestan, on the road from Temir-Khan-Shury to Gunib (Ruzsky?), Georgia: Abastuman, 1884 (Ruzsky?). Primary type depository: ZMUM.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1913i: 404.