Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Taiz - Al-Turbah, 14.iii.1993, roadside (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Yemen: Sana’a, 17.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood). 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.