Protonym: Acantholepis frauenfeldi var. splendens
Authorship Karavaiev, 1912b: 586
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GREECE (Crete)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: workers, queen Greece: Crete I., vic. Kanea, on the shore, 13.iii.1910 (T. Shebunin & N. Tshebotarev), workers with same data but 5.iii.1910. Primary type depository: NMAS (perhaps also SIZK).
Type notes Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 246, cite 7 worker syntypes in NMAS (plus 403 workers in alcohol).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Acantholepis frauenfeldi splendens Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev, 1912)
Original combination
Lepisiota splendens Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre, 1893)