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.