Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Qarah Village, 18°03’N, 42°45’E, 16.iv.1976 (
W. Büttiker). Primary type depository:
WMLC (cited as 1 “syntype” (
Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), and as holotype + 1 paratype (
Sharaf et al., 2018: 14)). Primary type specimen:
CASENT0906344.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository:
WMLC. Secondary type depository:
WMLC (cited as 1 “syntype” (
Sharaf et al., 2017: 27), and as holotype + 1 paratype (
Sharaf et al., 2018: 14)).
Type notes:
1)
Sharaf et al., 2018: 14, give the coordinates of the type-locality as 18°05’N, 42°75’E, 2000 m. 2)
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.