Protonym: Ponera spei var. fidelis
Authorship Santschi, 1926b: 207, fig. 1C
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SOUTH AFRICA
Primary type information Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal, Krantz Kloof, 21.i.1914 (H.B. Marley) (received from Arnold). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes 1) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 137, cites 1 queen syntype in NHMB as ‘holotype’. 2) The worker syntype was not found (Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 101).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Hypoponera spei fidelis Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Hypoponera spei (Forel, 1910)
Ponera spei fidelis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Hypoponera spei fidelis (Santschi, 1926)
Original combination