Protonym: Cryptocerus spinosus
| Authorship | Mayr, 1862: 761 |
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| Forms | w. |
| Bioregion | Neotropic |
| Locality | BRAZIL |
| Primary type information | Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Kempf, 1951: 187). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: “Amazon River area” (no further data). Primary type depository: NHMW. |
| Type notes | De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 220, point out that the lectotype is labelled Pernambuco, and that there is a possible syntype soldier (NHMW), with the same data. But Mayr, 1862: 763, implies that he had only a single specimen, saying it is possible that “the ant just described (Cephalotes punctatus) is the soldier and the previous (Cephalotes spinosus) is the worker of one and the same species”. |
Taxa belonging to this protonym
| Cephalotes spinosus | Species | Valid | |
| Cryptocerus spinosus | Species |
Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes spinosus (Mayr, 1862)
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Original combination |