Protonym: Formica coeca
Authorship Latreille, 1802a: 270, pl. 9, fig. 56
Forms s.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality SURINAME
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South America (“Amérique méridionale”) (no further data) (ex coll. Olivier). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MHNG or MNHN).
Type notes 1) Type-locality nominated as Suriname: Paramaribo by Borgmeier, 1955: 87. 2) Latreille, 1802a: 271, says the specimen was “described from the collection of the naturalist Olivier.” According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 150, Horn & Kahle, 1936: 197, Olivier’s collection is mostly in MNHN, with part in NMSE. Latreille’s Hymenoptera material passed through the de Romand collection and ended up in MHNG.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Eciton coecum Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Labidus coecus (Latreille, 1802)
Formica coeca Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Labidus coecus (Latreille, 1802)
Original combination
Labidus coecus Species Valid