Protonym: Pachycondyla simillima
Authorship Smith, 1858a: 105, pl. 7, fig. 17
Forms q.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SOUTH AFRICA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype queen (badly damaged). Primary type locality: South Africa: C.G. Hope (= Cape of Good Hope) (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900680.
Type notes Type locality is incorrect as Paltothyreus tarsatus is absent from South Africa, the specimen is probably mislabeled.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Pachycondyla simillima Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Paltothyreus simillima (Smith, 1858)
Original combination
Paltothyreus simillima Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Paltothyreus tarsatus (Fabricius, 1798)