Protonym: Formica flavitarsus
Authorship Smith, 1859a: 136
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDONESIA (Aru Is)
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru 14”, “Aru 45” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978 cites 2 worker syntypes in OXUM, “both specimens appear to come from the same series, and appear to have originally been mounted on a single card that was later cut in half”. 3) Lucky & Ward, 2010: 33, cite 2 worker syntypes in OXUM, but incorrectly attribute collector as F. Smith.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica flavitarsus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Leptomyrmex flavitarsus (Smith, 1859)
Original combination
Leptomyrmex flavitarsus Species Valid