Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Agricultural Station, 27.iii.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: probably WMLC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 5 paratypes workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: probably WMLC.
Type notes:
According to Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301, type material is in NHMB, but most, if not all, was never deposited there.