| Authorship |
Brandão et al., 1999:
29, figs. 5, 6, 23, 32-35, 48-52, 60-67
|
| Forms |
w.l. |
| Bioregion |
Neotropic |
| Locality |
COLOMBIA |
| Etymology |
Legionaria, a noun in apposition, meaning belonging to a legion in Latin, referring to the fact that one of the worker paratypes was preserved while holding a larva in the fashion usually adopted by army ants. |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: Santa Marta Mts, 7.vii.1913, #55, (Walker Expd.) (F.M. Gaige). Primary type depository: MCZC. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, BMNH, MCZC, MZSP. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0104671. |
| Type notes |
According to Brandão et al., 1999: 29, of the two paratypes deposited at MZSP, one has had its sting apparatus removed, and the other is preserved on a glass slide. |
