Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Wadi Hanaq, 22°49’N, 39°22’E, 31.i.1985 (
W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated), 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Abu Arish, 2.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Yemen: Wadi Surdud, 29.xii.1991 (
A. van Harten). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned).
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.