Protonym: Ponera iridipennis
Authorship Smith, 1858a: 85
Forms m.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: India: North Bengal, “42/25” (Campbell). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 474, cites 1 male in BMNH (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) BMNH accessions register gives: “1842 no. 25. N. Bengal. Purchd of Miss Campbell. Collected by her brother Lieut. Campbell in the N. part of Bengal presidency” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptogenys iridipennis Species Valid
Ponera iridipennis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Leptogenys iridipennis (Smith, 1858)
Original combination