Protonym: Cryptocerus pinelii
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 425
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Prov. Moro-Gueimado (= Morro Queimado Mts, Rio de Janeiro) (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN).
Type notes 1) De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 390, suspect that the holotype is lost. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present NNML.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes pinelii Species Valid
Cryptocerus pinelii Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes pinelii (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
Original combination