Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Wahibi Sands, 6.viii.1986 (
M.D. Gallagher). 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 worker with same data as holotype but 21.vii.1985, paratype workers United Arab Emirates: Djebel Haffete, 3-4.x.1984 (
H. Heatwole), paratype workers United Arab Emirates: Ras Ghanada, ix.1992 (
B. Tigar). Secondary type depositories:
NHMB (1 paratype worker),
WMLC. Secondary type specimen:
CASENT0913864.
Type notes:
1) 1 “syntype” cited by
Sharaf et al., 2021: 12, 21, in
WMLC, but the date on this specimen (21.vii.1985) does not correspond with the original description; considered by the authors to be a typographical error (p. 21). 2) Other type material perhaps in
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there, perhaps in
NCSU if Heatwole material was returned there, perhaps in
NARC if Tigar material was returned there. 3)
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.