Protonym: Cryptocerus pavonii
Authorship Latreille, 1809: 132
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality SOUTH AMERICA
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 325). Primary type locality: neotype Peru: Victoria, Junín, 1.vii.1938 (W.F. Walker). Primary type depository: MZSP. Primary type specimen: MZSP0084960 (neotype).
Type notes 1) Original type data: holotype worker, “America australi”: (no further data) (sent by Pavon); depository unknown and type material presumably lost (De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 325). 2) Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, confirm neotype worker in MZSP.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes pavonii Species Valid
Cryptocerus pavonii Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes pavonii (Latreille, 1809)
Original combination