Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Marmul, ix.1989 (
M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository:
NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Oman: Yalooni, 3.x.1984 (
M.D. Gallagher), paratype workers Oman: Yalooni, 18.xi.1984 (
R. Braund), paratype workers Oman: Mintirib, 14.i.1986 (
M.D. Gallagher). Secondary type depository:
NHMB (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there). Secondary type specimen:
CASENT0913824.
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 1 paratype in
NHMB.