Protonym: Messor hismai
Authorship Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 318, fig. 4
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SAUDI ARABIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Saudi Arabia: Wadi Hisma, 28°02’N, 36°07’E, 1120 m. (W. Büttiker). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB or WMLC).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown (perhaps NHMB or WMLC).
Type notes Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 301, say “All type material is housed in NHMB and duplicates placed in appropriate institutes and museums of the contributing countries”; this apparently was never done.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Messor hismai Species Valid Original combination