Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Lebanon, Beyroth (= Beirut) 5.viii.1933 (
Santschi), Lebanon: Tripoli (no collector’s name), Egypt: Suez (no collector’s name), Israel (“Palestine”) (no further data). Primary type depositories:
MSNG,
NHMB. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0249831 (
NHMB).
Type notes:
A “syntype” specimen
NHMB cited by
Sharaf et al., 2021: 26, bears the data Lebanon: Beyroth, 5.viii.1933; this is not type material but rather has its origin in
Santschi, 1934d: 277.