Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) male. Primary type locality: Somalia: Errer-es-Saghir, 25.viii. (L. Bricchetti Robecchi). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Emery, 1892f: 569, gives a different type locality: “eastern Sudan: (no further data) (P. Magretti)”.