Protonym: Messor donisthorpei
Authorship Santschi, 1937a: 51
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality NAMIBIA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Namibia (“SW Africa”): W Maltahohe, 1500 m., 12.xii.1934 (K. Jordan). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, NHMB, USNM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0913166, CASENT0913167.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor donisthorpei Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor capensis (Mayr, 1862)
Original combination