Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Suq al-Ahad, 26.iii.1983 (
C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps
WMLC).
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type localities: Yemen: Bajil-Zabid, 15.iii.1993 (
A. van Harten & C.A. Collingwood), Yemen: Bajil-Khamis Bani Sad, 16.iii.1993 (
A. van Harten & C.A. Collingwood). 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 in
TAUI.