Protonym: Echinopla striata
Authorship Smith, 1857a: 80
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality WEST MALAYSIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker (sole surviving syntype). Primary type locality: Malaysia: Malacca, “21 MAL.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 451, cites 1 worker in OXUM; confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978. 2) Originally 2 worker syntypes as Smith, 1857a says “I have seen only two individuals”, but one has obviously been lost or destroyed in the past.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Echinopla striata Species Valid Original combination