Protonym: Ponera ochracea r. guatemalensis
Authorship Forel, 1899b: 16
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality GUATEMALA
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17). Primary type locality: neotype Guatemala: Suchitepéquez, 4 km. S Vol. Atitlán, 14.54800, -91.19369±200 m., 1570 m., 14.vi.2009, #6709, cloud forest, rotten wood (J. Longino). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes 1) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, say that the lectotype worker earlier designated by MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352, came from Florida, not from either of the original syntype series (Guatemala and Nicaragua), which they say are entirely lost. 2) Original syntype data: workers (number not stated) Guatemala: Aceituno (Champion), and Nicaragua: Chontales (Janson), material lost. 3) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, also nominate as ‘paraneotypes’ (a category not recognised by ICZN), 2 workers, 3 queens, 3 males, in CASC, MCZC, USNM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cryptopone guatemalensis Species Valid
Ponera ochracea guatemalensis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899)
Original combination