Protonym: Formica binodis
Authorship Fabricius, 1775: 393
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality EGYPT
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Egypt: (“Habitat in Aegypto. Forskål”) (no further data). Primary type depository: ZMUK.
Type notes 1) Fabricius, 1775: 393, refers to this as Forskål material. It may therefore be the same as Formica binodis Forskål, 1775. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, Forskål material should be in ZMUC. 3) Zimsen, 1964: 425, cites 2 worker syntypes in ZMUK.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica binodis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Messor binodis (Fabricius, 1775)
Original combination
Messor binodis Species Synonym
unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)