Protonym: Cryptocerus bicolor
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 425
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDIA (Puducherry)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: India: Pondichery (A. Delessert). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN).
Type notes 1) Schödl, 1998: 372 says, “the holotype worker could not be located”. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cryptocerus bicolor Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Meranoplus bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
Original combination
Meranoplus bicolor Species Valid