Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Sad Baushar, 23°33’N, 58°24’E, 2.i.1992 (
M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository: unknown (1 “syntype” detected in
WMLC (
Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), perhaps also
ONHM). Primary type specimen:
CASENT0906342.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Yemen: Rissabah, 8.x.1991 (
A. van Harten), paratype workers Yemen: Wadi Surdud, 29.xi.1991 (
A. van Harten), paratype workers Yemen: Hoddaida, Bajil, 15.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: unknown (1 “syntype” detected in
WMLC (
Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), perhaps also
ONHM).
Type notes:
1)
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. 2) The single “syntype” is cited as holotype by
Sharaf et al., 2018: 12.