Protonym: Formica rufifrons
Authorship Smith, 1860b: 95
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Bacan)
Primary type information Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan I.), “Bac.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 459, says no type-specimens present in BMNH or OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 1 worker, 1 queen in OXUM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Camponotus rufifrons Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Colobopsis rufifrons (Smith, 1860)
Colobopsis rufifrons Species Valid
Formica rufifrons Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Colobopsis rufifrons (Smith, 1860)
Original combination