Protonym: Ponera pilosula
Authorship Smith, 1858a: 95
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 474, cites 1 worker in BMNH (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) A remounted worker in BMNH is labelled “type” and has a red disc. Apart from this the specimen has only a square of yellow paper and the label “Smith coll. Presented by Mrs Farren White.” A second worker, that has not been remounted, has the same labels but lacks the “type” disc, and has a white rectangular label “Frstrm”. Type locality given by Smith, 1858a is merely “Brazil”. This is absent from both specimens (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Platythyrea pilosula Species Valid
Ponera pilosula Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Platythyrea pilosula (Smith, 1858)
Original combination