Protonym: Labidus spinolae
Authorship Westwood, 1842: 77
Forms m.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (Goiás)
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype males. Primary type localities: Brazil: Meia Ponte, 16.x.1827 (W. Burchell) (invalid restriction of type locality by Borgmeier, 1955: 409; no lectotype designated), Brazil: Caisara, 23.x.1827 (W. Burchell) (“greatly mutilated”). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Borgmeier, 1955 did not recognise the second probable syntype and consequently regarded the Meia Ponte specimen as the holotype. 2) Caisara is the name of municipalities in both Rio Grande do Sul and Paraíba. 3) Caisara [=Caiçara] is a district of the municipality of Faina, Goiás state (Mônica Antunes Ulysséa).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Eciton spinolae Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Neivamyrmex spinolae (Westwood, 1842)
Labidus spinolae Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Neivamyrmex spinolae (Westwood, 1842)
Original combination
Neivamyrmex spinolae Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Neivamyrmex punctaticeps (Emery, 1894)