Protonym: Cryptocerus bicolor
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 425
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDIA (Puducherry)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: India: Pondichery (A. Delessert). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN).
Type notes 1) Schödl, 1998: 372 says, “the holotype worker could not be located”. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML. 3) Yodprasit et al., 2024: 31, say that type material is deposited in MNHN.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cryptocerus bicolor Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Meranoplus bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
Original combination
Meranoplus bicolor Species Valid