Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Bishah, 20°01’N, 42°34’E, 7.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated), 1 paratype queen, 1 paratype male. Secondary type localities: Saudi Arabia: Wadi Shuqub, 7.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Bishah, 7.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), Al-Tawlah, 7.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), An-Naamah, 8.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC).
Type notes:
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301, say “All type material is housed in
NHMB and duplicates placed in appropriate institutes and museums of the contributing countries”; this apparently was never done.