Protonym: Ponera coeca
Authorship Santschi, 1914d: 322, fig. 9
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality CAMEROON
Primary type information Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Cameroon: Victoria (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes 1) 1 worker, 1 queen syntypes in NHMB cited by Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 136, have no type-status as they are from Guinea: Camayenne (F. Silvestri); these specimens and this locality are not mentioned in the original description. 2) The syntypes are absent from NHMB, presumed lost (Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 34), but may be in the Silvestri collection in DEUN.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Hypoponera coeca Species Valid
Ponera coeca Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Hypoponera coeca (Santschi, 1914)
Original combination