Protonym: Cryptocerus discocephalus
Authorship Smith, 1853: 222, pl. 20, fig. 2
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data) (H.W. Bates?). Primary type depository: unknown (syntypes lost (not in BMNH or OXUM (De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 493))).
Type notes Smith, 1853 says “I have only seen two specimens, one in the collection of the British Museum, and one in my own”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes discocephalus Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cephalotes pallens (Klug, 1824)
Cryptocerus discocephalus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes discocephalus (Smith, 1853)
Original combination