Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Canada: Québec, Lake Athabasca, Parc des Laurentides, Comté de Charlevoix-Ouest, 16.ix.1966 (
A. Francoeur). Primary type depository: 
AFPC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated, “very large nest”). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: 
AFPC, 
AMNH, 
CDAO, 
LACM, 
MCZC, 
USNM.