Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Jabal Banban, 16.iii.1978 (
W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
NHMB,
ONHM,
WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: N Tabuk, 24.iv.1979, (N Hedjaz Expd.) (
W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Al-Tawlah, 7.iii.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Oman: Khabura Batina, 2.vi.1979 (
R.P. Whitcombe), paratype workers Oman: Thumrait, iv.1984 (
J.M. Barnes). Secondary type depository:
NHMB (perhaps also
ONHM,
WMLC). Secondary type specimen:
CASENT0913557.
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.