Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Wadi Rima, nr Madinar al-Shariq, 12.iii.1992 (
A. van Harten). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC; some van Harten material is in
TAUI).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC; 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.