Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Djebel an-Nabi Shuaib, 18.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC or NHMB).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: Yemen: Sumara Pass, 2500 m., 13.iii.1993 (C.A. Colingwood). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC or NHMB).
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.