Protonym: Formica viatica
Authorship Fabricius, 1787: 308
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality SPAIN
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Agosti, 1990b: 1490 (date of publication 19.x.1990)). Primary type locality: “Habitat in Hispaniae” Dom. Vahl. Primary type depository: ZMUC.
Type notes 1) A lectotype was separately also designated by Tinaut, 1990c: 50 (date of publication (31).xii.1990). 2) Agosti, 1990b: 1491, points out that Vohl material was often mislabeled and the type locality “could easily have been North Africa”. 3) Zimsen, 1964: 425, cites 1 worker in ZMUC, 2 workers in ZMUK.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cataglyphis viatica Species Valid
Formica viatica Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cataglyphis viatica (Fabricius, 1787)
Original combination
Monocombus viaticus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cataglyphis viatica (Fabricius, 1787)
Myrmecocystus viaticus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cataglyphis viatica (Fabricius, 1787)