Protonym: Ponera cuprea
Authorship Smith, 1860b: 104
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Indonesia)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia (“N. Guinea”): Irian Jaya, Dory (= Manokwari), “Dor 19” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes Donisthorpe, 1932c: 462, cites 1 worker in OXUM; (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978), the “obscure coppery tinge” reported in the original description appears to have faded away.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Diacamma cupreum Species Valid
Ponera cuprea Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Diacamma cupreum (Smith, 1860)
Original combination