| Authorship |
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996:
348, fig. 19
|
| Forms |
w. |
| Bioregion |
Afrotropic |
| Locality |
SAUDI ARABIA, OMAN, YEMEN |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Jizan, Abu Arish, 2.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC, perhaps NHMB if Büttiker material was returned, perhaps ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there). |
| 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: Wadi ad-Dilla, Jizan, 22.iv.1975 (W. Büttiker), paratype workers Saudi Arabia: Najran, 7.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Oman: Tibat Musandham, 24.ix.1984 (M.D. Gallagher), paratype workers Yemen: Rissabah, 8.x.1991 (A. van Harten), paratype workers Yemen: Taiz, 20.x.1991 (A. van Harten). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC, perhaps NHMB if Büttiker material was returned, perhaps ONHM if Gallagher material has been retained there). |
| 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) Some van Harten material is in TAUI. |
