Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Oman: Wadi Diri, 16.v.1984 (
M.D. Gallagher). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Oman: Wahiba Sands, 14.xii.1985 (
M.D. Gallagher), paratype workers Oman: Mintirib, 1.iii.1986 (
M.D. Gallagher). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps
ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there).
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.