Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Wadi Matam, 1.ii.1986 (
M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository:
WMLC. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0922325.
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: Nuayriyah, 20.v.1980 (
W. Büttiker), paratype workers Yemen: Sana’a, ii.1991 (
A. van Harten). Secondary type depository: perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned, perhaps also
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
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) Some van Harten material is in
TAUI.