Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Algeria: (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Agosti, 1990b: 1487, could not find it, and Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”.