Protonym: Cardiocondyla latifrons
Authorship Seifert, 2023a: 37, fig. 13
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.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cardiocondyla latifrons Species Valid Original combination