Protonym: Formica (Tapinoma) terricola
Authorship Buckley, 1866: 168
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Texas)
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype male (by designation of Trager, 1984b: 84). Primary type locality: neotype U.S.A.: Texas, Real County, 12 mi. NE Leakey, 19.iii.1970, no. 3725 (O. Francke, et al.). Primary type depository: LACM.
Type notes 1) Trager, 1984b: 84, also nominates a “alloneotype” worker, a category not recognised by ICZN (in LACM). 2) Other specimens from the same series as the neotype are in MCZC. 3) Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 33, incorrectly cite the neotype as a worker. 4) Original type data: syntype workers (number not stated), U.S.A.: Texas, Austin (S.B. Buckley), type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica terricola Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Nylanderia terricola (Buckley, 1866)
Original combination
Nylanderia terricola Species Valid