Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Al Muraywah, 28°46’N, 45°00’E, 420 m., 28.x.1985 (
W. Büttiker). Primary type depository:
WMLC. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0922184.
Type notes:
Holotype was initially referred to
NHMB (
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301) but was never deposited there; it was detected in
WMLC by
Sharaf et al., 2017: 13.