Protonym: Ponera tortuolosa
Authorship Smith, 1863a: 18
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Seram I., Buru I.)
Primary type information Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-localities: Indonesia: Seram, “Cer” (A.R. Wallace), and Buru, “B” (A.R. Wallace). Type-depository: OXUM.
Type notes The Buru specimen does not match the original description, the Seram specimen does. It is assumed that the original Buru worker was lost, and later replaced with a substitute which is not conspecific.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Diacamma tortuolosum Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Diacamma smithi Donisthorpe, 1943
Ponera tortuolosa Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Diacamma tortuolosum (Smith, 1863)
Original combination