Protonym: Melophorus sauberi
Authorship Forel, 1903e: 266
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality CHILE
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Chile: Tierra del Fuego, Punta Arenas (W. Michaelsen). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes 1) Forel, 1904i: 5, adds the data “Mich. 75, ix.1892, and Mich. 80, 25.ii.1893”. 2) Forel, 1903e: 267, gives “Musée de Hambourg” as depository; these specimens were probably destroyed in World War II.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Lasiophanes sauberi Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Lasiophanes picinus (Roger, 1863)
Melophorus sauberi Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lasiophanes sauberi (Forel, 1903)
Original combination