Protonym: Prenolepis melanderi
| Authorship | Wheeler, 1903c: 104, fig. 8 |
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| Forms | w.q.m. |
| Bioregion | Nearctic |
| Locality | U.S.A. (Texas) |
| Primary type information | Primary type material: lectotype male (by designation of Trager, 1984b: 85 (in text)). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Texas, Travis County, Austin (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: not stated (lectotype). |
| Secondary type information | Secondary type locality: potential paralectotypes with same data as lectotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC. |
| Type notes | 1) Original type series: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “numerous specimens”). 2) Trager, 1984b: 85, only mentions a lectotype male in the text, there is no formal designation; the lectotype male appears to be from Austin. 3) Other original syntype localities: U.S.A.: Texas, Comal County, New Braunfels (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Creighton, 1950a: 407; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Texas, Tom Green County, San Angelo (W.M. Wheeler), Texas, Jeff Davis County, Fort Davis (W.M. Wheeler), Mexico: Chihuahua, Rio Santa Maria (C.H.T. Townsend), Chihuahua, Cerro del Chilicote (C.H.T. Townsend). |
Taxa belonging to this protonym
| Nylanderia melanderi | Species |
Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Nylanderia terricola (Buckley, 1866)
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| Prenolepis melanderi | Species |
Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Nylanderia melanderi (Wheeler, 1903)
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Original combination |