Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Kuwait: Umm al-Hemam, 9.iii.1988 (W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: WMLC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0922316.
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: Uyaynah, 1.iv.1976 (W. Büttiker). Secondary type depositories: NHMB, WMLC. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0913800.
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) Sharaf et al., 2021: 23, cite holotype, 1 paratype in WMLC.