Protonym: Formica cephalotes
Authorship Linnaeus, 1758: 581
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality SURINAME
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none stated, “Habitat in America meridionali”. Primary type depository: ZMLS.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Borgmeier, 1939: 422, cites Suriname: (no further data) (Rolander) as type-locality. Later Borgmeier, 1959b: 339, expands this to Suriname: Paramaribo.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Atta cephalotes Species Valid
Formica cephalotes Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Atta cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Original combination