Primary type information:
Primary type material: 6 syntype workers. Primary type localities: Virgin Is: St Thomas I., 14.x.1878 (
A. Forel) (invalid restriction of type locality by
Kempf, 1972b: 143; no lectotype designated), Guatemala: (no further data; material apparently lost). Primary type depository:
MHNG. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0908696.
Type notes:
1) This taxon is based on specimens of
Monomorium carbonarium Smith, 1858a,
sensu Forel, 1881: 8, misidentification. 2) A lectotype queen designated by
DuBois, 1986: 106, is redundant as no queen is mentioned in the original type series, and the lectotype’s locality, St Vincent, does not occur in either of Forel’s publications (
Forel, 1881,
Forel, 1891c). 3)
Seifert, 2025: 75, cites the redundantly designated lectotype queen (
CASENT0908695) as type material