Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype major worker, 1 syntype minor worker. Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (
F. Walker). Primary type depository:
BMNH. Primary type specimens:
CASENT0901501,
CASENT0902012
Type notes:
The two specimens that
Walker, 1859 describes as major and minor workers belong in different genera. The ‘minor worker’ is a
Pheidole species (a specimen of
Pheidole sharpi according to
Donisthorpe, 1932b: 576); the ‘major worker’ belongs in
Dilobocondyla. This taxonomic conundrum may be best resolved by regarding the ‘major worker’ as the lectotype, and excluding the ‘minor worker’ from further consideration.