Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype male (by designation of 
Agosti, 1990b: 1490). Primary type locality: Egypt: nr the Pyramids (
son of L. Dufour). Primary type depository: 
MNHN.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paralectotype workers, paralectotype males. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: 
MNHN.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated, but in total “12 individuals in good condition”); 
Agosti, 1990b: 1490, cites 2 workers on 1 pin, and 1 male on a separate pin, which are not conspecific. 2) 
Agosti, 1990b: 1490, cites 
MNHN as depository, but earlier 
Santschi, 1929b: 45, said of 
MNHN “the types [of 
Cataglyphis savignyi] have vanished”.