Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Dammam, 26°24’N, 50°11’E, 5.i.1979 (
W. Büttiker). Type depository: probably
WMLC, possibly
NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type localities: paratype workers with same data, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Jebel Maniq, 5.i.1979 (
W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Wadi Awsat, 31.xii.1976 (
W. Büttiker). Type depository: probably
WMLC, possibly
NHMB.
Type notes:
According to
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301, type material is in
NHMB, but most, if not all, was never deposited there.