Protonym: Messor capensis st. decipiens
Authorship Santschi, 1917e: 94
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SOUTH AFRICA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal (R.C. Wroughton) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 805; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Cape Colony (R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0907714, CASENT0907715.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor capensis decipiens Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Messor decipiens Santschi, 1917
Original combination
Messor decipiens Species Valid