Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Sawdah Mt, 2500 m., 18°17’N, 42°23’E, 9.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository:
WMLC.
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: Sanam, 28.vi.1980 (
W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Wadi Azizah, 18.ix.1983 (
W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Bishah, 7.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: An-Naamah, 8.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depositories and specimens:
NHMB:
CASENT0913825;
WMLC:
CASENT0906345,
CASENT0906346,
CASENT0906347.
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.