Protonym: Formica (Tapinoma) gibba
Authorship Smith, 1861b: 38
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDONESIA (Sulawesi)
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Celebes”), Tondano, “Tond” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 465, cites 2 workers in OXUM; (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) Another 2 workers are present in OXUM, with the Smith label “Tond. 3”, type-status indeterminate (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Dolichoderus gibbus Species Valid
Formica gibba Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Dolichoderus gibbus (Smith, 1861)
Original combination