Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Yemen: Wadi nr Zingibar, 21.iii.1993 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 7 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown.
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)
Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012a: 16, say type material is apparently lost, not in
WMLC.