Protonym: Ponera gagates
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 423
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SENEGAL
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Senegal: banks of the (River) Casamance (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN).
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Paltothyreus gagates Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Paltothyreus tarsatus (Fabricius, 1798)
Ponera gagates Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Paltothyreus gagates (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
Original combination