Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Al-Mahwit, 21.ix.1991 (
A. van Harten). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC; some van Haren material is in
TAUI).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype workers Yemen: Taiz-Mafhaq, 15.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Yemen: Wadi Bani, 20.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Yemen: Mabar, iv.1993 (
M. Knapp). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC; some van Haren 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.