Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Hammam Ali, 16.ii.1992 (A. van Harten). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 9 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC).
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.