Protonym: Leptomyrmex varians subsp. quadricolor
Authorship Wheeler, 1934c: 104
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (Queensland)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, McIlwraith (“McIlthwaite”) Range, Lankelly Creek, 1931-32, (Harvard Expd.) (P.J. Darlington). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MVMA, USNM.
Type notes Shattuck, 1994: 120, cites 23 worker syntypes (2 BMNH, 16 MCZC, 2 MVMA, 3 USNM).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptomyrmex varians quadricolor Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex rufipes Emery, 1895
Original combination