Protonym: Formica megalocola
Authorship Foerster, 1850b: 490
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality ALGERIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. 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, could not find it, and 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 megalocola Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cataglyphis bicolor (Fabricius, 1793)
Formica megalocola Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cataglyphis megalocola (Foerster, 1850)
Original combination