Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Qarhat Mu’ammar, 1.ii.1986 (
M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
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: Wadi Awsat, 31.xii.1974 (
W. Büttiker). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
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.