Protonym: Cryptocerus obtusus
Authorship Smith, 1858a: 191
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (Pará)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Santarem (H.W. Bates). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 172, record a second syntype (in ZSBS) from Amazonas, but this locality is not mentioned in the original description.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes obtusus Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cephalotes pusillus (Klug, 1824)
Cryptocerus obtusus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes obtusus (Smith, 1858)
Original combination