Protonym: Formica spinicollis
Authorship Latreille, 1817b: 99, pl. 38, figs. 6-12
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio Negro (A. von Humboldt). Primary type depository: perhaps MNHU.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Kempf, 1959c: 232, Kempf, 1972b: 143, and MacKay, 1993b: 97, give the type locality as Venezuela, Rio Negro. 3) Both Kempf and Mackay give the publication date of Dolichoderus spinicollis as 1832, an incorrect date originally given by Dalla Torre, 1893: 161, and repeated in Forel, 1895b: 108.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Dolichoderus spinicollis Species Valid
Formica spinicollis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Dolichoderus spinicollis (Latreille, 1817)
Original combination