Protonym: Euponera (Trachymesopus) obsoleta
Authorship Menozzi, 1931d: 196, fig. 5
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality COSTA RICA
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352). Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Vara Blanca, 2000 m., between Barba Volcano and Poas (H. Schmidt). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: IEUB, DEIM.
Type notes 1) Original description cites “several” syntype workers. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 135, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cryptopone obsoleta Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899)
Euponera obsoleta Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cryptopone obsoleta (Menozzi, 1931)
Original combination