Protonym: Formica savignyi
Authorship Dufour, 1862: 141
Forms w.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality EGYPT
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype male (by designation of Agosti, 1990b: 1490). Primary type locality: Egypt: nr the Pyramids (son of L. Dufour). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paralectotype workers, paralectotype males. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes 1) Original description cites syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated, but in total “12 individuals in good condition”); Agosti, 1990b: 1490, cites 2 workers on 1 pin, and 1 male on a separate pin, which are not conspecific. 2) Agosti, 1990b: 1490, cites MNHN as depository, but earlier Santschi, 1929b: 45, said of MNHN “the types [of Cataglyphis savignyi] have vanished”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cataglyphis savignyi Species Valid
Formica savignyi Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cataglyphis savignyi (Dufour, 1862)
Original combination
Myrmecocystus savignyi Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cataglyphis savignyi (Dufour, 1862)