Protonym: Cryptocerus basalis
Authorship Smith, 1876d: 608
Forms q.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality NICARAGUA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: “Brazil”: Chontales (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 269, rightly point out that Chontales is a department of Nicaragua, not Brazil.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes basalis Species Valid
Cryptocerus basalis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes basalis (Smith, 1876)
Original combination