Protonym: Cryptocerus aethiops
Authorship Smith, 1853: 216, pl. 20, fig. 9
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data) (H.W. Bates). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900232
Type notes 1) Originally there was apparently more than one specimen as Smith, 1853 says “In the Collection of the British Museum, and of my own”. 2) In their revision De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 141, cite only a single (holotype) specimen in BMNH.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes aethiops Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cephalotes oculatus (Spinola, 1851)
Cryptocerus aethiops Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes aethiops (Smith, 1853)
Original combination