Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: desert nr Najran, 17°32’N, 44°00’E, 10.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository:
WMLC (holotype) (
Sharaf et al., 2021: 28). Primary type specimen:
CASENT0922335.
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: Hofuf desert area, 11.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Al-Baix, 11.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood).
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.