Primary type information:
Primary type material: unknown (no sex/caste indicated). Primary type locality: not given (perhaps Saudi Arabia or Egypt). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes:
1) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, Forskål material should be in ZMUC; 2) This material may be the same as Messor binodisFabricius, 1775; Fabricius, 1775 refers to Forskål as the collector, both there and in Fabricius, 1782: 491.