Protonym: Formica gracilis
Authorship Fabricius, 1804: 405
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality GUYANA
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward, 1989a: 439). Primary type locality: lectotype Guyana: Essequibo (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: ZMUC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paralectotype workers (number uncertain). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: ZMUC, ZMUK.
Type notes 1) Zimsen, 1964: 425, cites 4 worker syntypes (3 ZMUC, 1 ZMUK, but Ward, 1989a: 439 (in text), says that one ZMUC specimen is not conspecific with the lectotype). 2) Original locality data: South America: (“Habitat in America meridionali Dom. Smidt. Mus. Dom. Lund.”) (no further data); the Essequibo locality is cited by Ward, 1989a: 439.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica gracilis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius, 1804)
Original combination
Pseudomyrma gracilis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius, 1804)
Pseudomyrmex gracilis Species Valid