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).
Type notes 1) Smith, 1862d: 410, gives the type-locality as Brazil (Amazonas). 2) Syntypes not in BMNH or OXUM, according to De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 493.
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