Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel: (“Habitat in Aegypto, Arabia, Palaestina.”) (no further data). Primary type depository:
ZMLS (perhaps also
UUUS).
Type notes:
Linnaeus, 1764: 418, restricts the distribution to Egypt, which may be regarded as the type locality.