Authorship |
Seifert, 2023a:
37, fig. 13
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Forms |
w.q.em. |
Bioregion |
Indomalaya |
Locality |
WEST MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES (Leyte) |
Etymology |
From Latin, meaning broad frons, because of the widely distant frontal carinae. |
Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Malaysia: Negeri Sembilan, Pasoh Forest Reserve, xi.1994, (M. Brendell, K. Jackson, S. Lewis). Primary type depository: SMNG. |
Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 17 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens, 2 paratype ergatoid males. Secondary type localities: 2 paratype workers with same data as holotype; 5 paratype workers Malaysia: Ulu Gombak, 2.vi.2000-M3 (Yamauchi); 6 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens, 2 paratype ergatoid males Malaysia: Ulu Gombak, 3.vi.2000-1, and 3.vi.2000-2 (K. Yamauchi); 4 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Philippines: Leyte, Tacloban, 10.xii.1944 (E.S. Ross). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, CASC, SMNG. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0103274. |
Type notes |
The type material includes queens and males. However, no description of these castes is given. |