Protonym: Cataglyphis fairmairei
Authorship Foerster, 1850b: 494
Forms m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality ALGERIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) male. Primary type locality: Algeria (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Agosti, 1990b: 1487, says Cataglyphis fairmairei material could not be found. Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “according to our own search in German collections, type material of Förster is completely destroyed”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cataglyphis fairmairei Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius, 1793)
Original combination