Protonym: Macromischa salvini var. obscurior
Authorship Forel, 1899e: 57
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality PANAMA
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Prebus, 2021b: 384). Primary type locality: neotype Costa Rica: Puntarenas: 4 km SSE San Vito, 8.783333 N 82.966667 W, 1200 m, 18.iii.1990, second-growth rainforest, on low vegetation, #10564-2 (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: MHNG (neotype). Primary type specimen: CASENT0758334 (top specimen on pin).
Type notes 1) Prebus, 2021b: 385, also nominates a “paraneotype”, a category not recognised by ICZN. 2) Original type data: syntype workers (number not stated), Panama: Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion); material absent from BMNH, MHNG, not found by Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 495.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Macromischa salvini obscurior Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax salvini obscurior (Forel, 1899)
Original combination
Temnothorax salvini obscurior Subspecies Homonym
homonym replaced by Temnothorax longicaulis Prebus, 2021