Protonym: Formica macra
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1831: pl. 8, fig. 1
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality NEW GUINEA (Indonesia)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Offack (presumably Offack Bay, Waigeu I.), 1822-25 (Voyage La Coquille). Primary type depository: probably MNHN.
Type notes According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.
Notes See also: Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 202.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica macra Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Oecophylla macra (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
Original combination
Oecophylla macra Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775)