Protonym: Myrmica rufotestacea
Authorship Foerster, 1850b: 489
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality ALGERIA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Algeria: Algiers (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes 1) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”. 2) However, perhaps specimens remain in MNHN as Foerster, 1850b (p. 486) thanks “Leon Fairmaire in Paris” for the specimens.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor rufotestaceus Species Valid
Myrmica rufotestacea Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Messor rufotestaceus (Foerster, 1850)
Original combination