Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Fayfa, 17°16’N, 43°05’E, 27.iii.1983 (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 Saudi Arabia: Khama, mangrove swamp, 1.iv.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood), paratype workers Yemen: Rissabah, 18.xi.1991 (
A. van Harten), paratype workers Yemen: Wadi Surdud, 29.xii.1991 (
A. van Harten). Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC).
Type notes:
1)
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. 2) Some van Harten material is present in
TAUI.