Protonym: Lepisiota dammama
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 365
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SAUDI ARABIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Dammam, 26°24’N, 50°11’E, 5.i.1979 (W. Büttiker). Type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB, or WMLC).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type localities: paratype workers with same data, paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Jebel Maniq, 5.i.1979 (W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Wadi Awsat, 31.xii.1976 (W. Büttiker). Type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB, or WMLC).
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.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Lepisiota dammama Species Valid Original combination