Protonym: Atta didita
Authorship Walker, 1859: 375
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality SRI LANKA
Primary type information Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (F. Walker). Type-depository: BMNH.
Type notes The two specimens that Walker describes as major and minor workers belong in different genera. The ‘minor worker’ is a Pheidole species (a specimen of Pheidole sharpi according to Donisthorpe, 1932b: 576); the ‘major worker’ belongs in Dilobocondyla. This taxonomic conundrum may be best resolved by regarding the ‘major worker’ as the lectotype, and excluding the ‘minor worker’ from further consideration.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Atta didita Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Dilobocondyla didita (Walker, 1859)
Original combination
Dilobocondyla didita Species Valid