Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Djebel an-Nabi Shuaib, 11.ix.1992 (
A. van Harten). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps also
NHCY,
NHMB; some van Harten material is in
TAUI).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 14 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 4 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 10 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 7.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC, perhaps also
NHCY,
NHMB; 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.