Protonym: Pachycondyla melancholica
Authorship Smith, 1865a: 71
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Morotai)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Morty Island (= Morotai I.), “M” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 472, says specimen not in BMNH or OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 1 worker in OXUM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Ectomomyrmex melancholicus Species Valid
Pachycondyla melancholica Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Ectomomyrmex melancholicus (Smith, 1865)
Original combination
Platythyrea melancholica Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Ectomomyrmex melancholicus (Smith, 1865)