Protonym: Ponera abyssinica
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1849: 352, pl. 7, fig. 6
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality ETHIOPIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Ethiopia (“Abyssinia”): (no further data). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Megaponera abyssinica Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Megaponera analis (Latreille, 1802)
Ponera abyssinica Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Megaponera abyssinica (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)
Original combination