Protonym: Camponotus (Formica) nitidus
Authorship Norton, 1868c: 2
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality MEXICO (Veracruz)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Snelling, 2000: 608). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Veracruz, Mts of Orizaba (Sumichrast). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0910425 (lectotype).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes 1) Lectotype designation by Mackay & MacKay, 1997b: 332, is redundant as the specimen they cite is derived from Forel, 1895a: 44 (in text), from Guatemala, not from the original type-series from Mexico. 2) Forel, 1879a: 82, cites a Norton syntype in NHMW.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Camponotus nitidus Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Lathidris rectithorax (Forel, 1895)
Original combination
Lathidris nitida Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Lathidris rectithorax (Forel, 1895)