Protonym: Ponera ochracea r. guatemalensis
Authorship Forel, 1899b: 16
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality GUATEMALA
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17). Primary type locality: neotype Guatemala: Suchitepéquez, 4 km. S Vol. Atitlán, 14.54800, -91.19369±200 m., 1570 m., 14.vi.2009, #6709, cloud forest, rotten wood (J. Longino). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes 1) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, say that the lectotype worker earlier designated by MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352, came from Florida, not from either of the original syntype series (Guatemala and Nicaragua), which they say are entirely lost. 2) Original syntype data: workers (number not stated) Guatemala: Aceituno (Champion), and Nicaragua: Chontales (Janson), material lost. 3) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, also nominate 2 workers, 3 queens, 3 males as ‘paraneotypes’ (a category not recognised by ICZN) in CASC, MCZC, USNM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cryptopone guatemalensis Species Valid
Ponera ochracea guatemalensis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899)
Original combination