Protonym: Azteca instabilis var. major
Authorship Forel, 1899h: 107
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality PANAMA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Panama: Bugaba, Caldera (Champion) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 32; no lectotype designated), Colombia: (no further data) (A. Forel), French Guiana: Cayenne (K.R. Jelski). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes 1) Shattuck, 1994: 19, cites 60 worker syntypes in MHNG. 2) In addition to the syntypes cited by Shattuck, 1994, there are 6 worker syntypes from Burithaka (= Buritaca) with the same labels as the BMNH type which were among unsorted material. There are 23 males labeled as types from type localities.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Azteca instabilis major Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca instabilis (Smith, 1862)
Original combination