Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Suleyil desert, 25°40’N, 45°50’E, 11.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated), 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: paratype workers, queens, male with same data as holotype, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Hofuf, 13.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Al-Qatif, 14.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, 17.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Oman: Barr al-Hickman, 12.ii.1987 (
M.D. Gallagher), paratype workers Oman: Jabal Maram, 27.ii.1990 (
M.D. Gallagher). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
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.