Protonym: Technomyrmex albipes st. rufescens
Authorship Santschi, 1928c: 70, fig. 1
Forms w.-q. intercaste
Bioregion Oceania
Locality FIJI (Lau Is)
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype worker-queen intercastes. Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Lau, Aiwa, 9.i.1924 and 31.viii.1924 (E.H. Bryan). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911581.
Type notes 1) Syntypes are worker-queen intercastes, not workers as stated in the original description (Bolton, 2007b: 104). 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 87, Shattuck, 1994: 157, and Bolton, 2007b: 104, cite 1 worker syntype in NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Technomyrmex albipes rufescens Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Technomyrmex vitiensis Mann, 1921
Original combination