Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Kuwait: Umm al-Hemam, 9.iii.1988 (
W. Büttiker). Primary type depository:
WMLC. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0922316.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Uyaynah, 1.iv.1976 (
W. Büttiker). Secondary type depositories:
NHMB,
WMLC. Secondary type specimen:
CASENT0913800.
Type notes:
1)
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. 2)
Sharaf et al., 2021: 23, cite holotype, 1 paratype in
WMLC.