Protonym: Cosmaecetes homalinus
Authorship Spinola, 1851b: 55
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality NORTH AFRICA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Pará, Belém, 1846 (V. Ghiliani) (locality in error). Primary type depository: MRSN.
Type notes 1) Spinola, 1853: 71, says that he found three workers in M. Rambur’s collection that were exactly the same as the holotype, but from Algeria. 2) Emery, 1893j: 1, says that the type specimen is missing, but its label still remains; he confirms that Dorylus homalinus is from North Africa.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cosmaecetes homalinus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Dorylus homalinus (Spinola, 1851)
Original combination
Dorylus homalinus Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus fulvus (Westwood, 1839)