Protonym: Myrmica rugifrons
Authorship Smith, 1858a: 124
Forms q.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDIA
Primary type information Type-material: holotype queen. Type-locality: “India (Penang) (Coll. East India House)”. Type-depository: unknown.
Type notes In original description locality is given as “India (Penang)”. Penang is in West Malaysia, far from India. Later Smith, 1871a: 326, gives “India; Penang”, implying two separate localities; but the original description implies that only a single specimen is present.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Monomorium rugifrons Species Valid
Myrmica rugifrons Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Monomorium rugifrons (Smith, 1858)
Original combination