Protonym: Ponera intricata
Authorship Smith, 1857a: 67
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Malaysia (“Borneo”): Sarawak, “SAR” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 1 worker in BMNH. 3) Two further worker specimens, possibly members of the original type-series, are in BMNH. One bears a Donisthorpe label, “compared with type Diacamma intricata Smith,” and is also labelled, “SAR” and “Borneo 57/36.” The second (gaster missing) has a Farren White label, and also “SAR 16.”
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Diacamma intricatum Species Valid
Ponera intricata Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Diacamma intricatum (Smith, 1857)
Original combination