Protonym: Simopelta laticeps
Authorship Gotwald & Brown, 1967: 273, figs. 15, 16
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality PERU
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Peru: 28 mi. E Olmos, Lambayeque, 2000 m., 19.i.1955 (E.J. Schlinger & E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE09451.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes Mackay & Mackay, 2008b: 306, report that the paratype could not be found in MCZC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Simopelta laticeps Species Valid Original combination