Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Wadi Tumair, 25°43’N, 45°51’E, 20.ii.1976 (
W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers United Arab Emirates: Ras Ghanada, ix.1992 (
B. Tigar), paratype workers Oman: Eastern Sanda, Mintirib, ii.1985 (
W. Büttiker). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
NHMB if Büttiker material was returned).
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.