Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Sid el Feyhn, 10.vi.1992 (
A. van Harten). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
NHMB,
ONHM,
WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen, 2 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
NHMB,
ONHM,
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.