Protonym: Veromessor andrei subsp. castaneus
Authorship Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 365
Forms w.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (California)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Johnson et al., 2022: 12). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: California, San Diego County, Jacumba, 13.viii.1917 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: USNM. Primary type specimen: USNMENT00529071 (lectotype).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 8 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: LACM, USNM. (Source: Johnson et al., 2022: 12.)
Type notes The original description gives the type locality as U.S.A.: California, Jacumba (W.M. Wheeler); other syntypes from California, San Diego (W.M. Wheeler).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Veromessor andrei castaneus Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Veromessor andrei (Mayr, 1886)
Original combination