Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Al Kola, semi cultivated area, 10.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository:
WMLC. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0922314.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 11 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype.
Type notes:
In the original description
Collingwood, 1985 states that type material is in
BMNH (paratypes) and
NHMB (holotype + paratypes); however, the only known extant specimen is the holotype, in
WMLC (
Sharaf et al., 2018: 219).