Protonym: Formica caespitum
Authorship Linnaeus, 1758: 581
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality SWEDEN
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Schlick-Steiner et al., 2006: 270). Primary type locality: neotype Sweden: Floghult Bohuslan, 100 m., 21.vi.2000, # il32 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: NHMW (neotype). Primary type specimen: CASENT0919632 (neotype).
Type notes 1) Original data: syntype workers (number not stated), Europe: (“Habitat in Europae.”) (no further data), material lost. 2) 8 workers from the same series as the neotype are in BFPC, NHMW, SMNG.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica caespitum Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Original combination
Tetramorium caespitum Species Valid
Tetramorium caespitum caespitum Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758)