Protonym: Euponera (Trachymesopus) obsoleta
Authorship Menozzi, 1931d: 196, fig. 5
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality COSTA RICA
Primary type information Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352). Type-locality: Costa Rica: Vara Blanca, 2000 m., between Barba Volcano and Poas (H. Schmidt). Type-depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depositories: IEUB, DEIM.
Type notes Several other syntype workers exist, perhaps best regarded as paralectotypes as all specimens were originally from a single series.
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