Protonym: Tetraponera hespera
Authorship Ward, 2009a: 295, figs. 2-4, 6, 9-12, 24
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Malagasy
Locality MADAGASCAR
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Antsiranana, Nosy Be, 4 km. ESE Andoany (= Hellville), 100 m., 13°25’S, 48°18’E, 2.v.1989, #10457 (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0012865.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but 100-200 m., #10456, 10457, 10459, 10463, 10465, 10470-1. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, CASC, MCZC, PSWC, SAMC, UCDC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tetraponera hespera Species Valid Original combination