Protonym: Macromischa azteca var. maya
Authorship Wheeler, 1937b: 458
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality GUATEMALA
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Prebus, 2021b: 368). Primary type locality: lectotype Guatemala: Mocá, W slope of Volcán de Atitlán, 3500 ft, 22.iii.1935 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: M.C.Z. co-type 22801 (lectotype).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: LACM. Secondary type specimen: LACMENT181956.
Type notes 1) Wheeler, 1937b originally described this taxon from “numerous specimens from four colonies”. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 427, cites 40 worker, 10 queen syntypes in MCZC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Macromischa azteca maya Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax aztecus maya (Wheeler, 1937)
Original combination
Temnothorax aztecus maya Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Temnothorax aztecus (Wheeler, 1931)