Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Israel: Sinai, nr Eilat, 23.xii.1978 (
H. Holgersen). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps also
NHMB,
OMNH; Israeli material may be in
TAUI).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated). Secondary type localities: paratypes: workers with same data as holotype, workers, queens Saudi Arabia: Al-Qatif, 12.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, 22.iii.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), 1 worker Oman: Thumrait, vi.1984 (
J.M. Barnes). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps also
NHMB,
OMNH; Israeli material may be in
TAUI).
Type notes:
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301, say “All type material is housed in
NHMB and duplicates placed in appropriate institutes and museums of the contributing countries”; this apparently was never done.