Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Israel: Sinai, nr Eilat, 23.xii.1978 (H. Holgersen). Primary type depository: not stated (perhaps NHMB, WMLC). 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: not stated (perhaps NHMB, WMLC).