Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Sana’a, ix.1992 (
A. van Harten). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps also
NHMB,
OMNH; some van Harten material is in
TAUI).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratypes: with same data as holotype, Yemen: Sana’a, 10.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood), Yemen: Al Mahwit, 21.ix.1991 (
A. van Harten), Al Mahwit, 8.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood), Oman: Samhan, 8.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps also
NHMB,
OMNH; some van Harten material is in
TAUI).
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.