Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Saudi Arabia: Wadi Shugub Turabah, 6.iv.1980 (
W. Büttiker), Saudi Arabia: Wadi Dawasir desert, 24.iii.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Al Kharfah desert, 24.iii.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Hofuf tamarisk park, 13.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Sulaiel desert, 11.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Saudi Arabia: Hair desert, 18.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), 1 worker Oman: Mugsin Dhofar, 20.ix.1979 (
R.P. Whitcombe). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
NHMB or
WMLC).
Type notes:
1)
Collingwood, 1985 does not nominate a holotype, nor does he designate a single type locality or depository. 2) In this publication much type-material was referred to
NHMB but was apparently never deposited there.