Protonym: Formica atriceps
Authorship Smith, 1858a: 44
Forms s.w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (Pará)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Brazil: Pará, Belém (no collector’s name; perhaps H.W. Bates) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Kempf, 1972b: 59; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Pará, Santarem (no collector’s name; perhaps H.W. Bates), Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes Hashmi, 1973b: 85, cites a BMNH specimen as holotype, but from Smith’s original description it is obvious that several specimens were involved.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Camponotus atriceps Species Valid
Formica atriceps Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Camponotus atriceps (Smith, 1858)
Original combination