Protonym: Cryptopone tenuis
Authorship Emery, 1900b: 321, pl. 8, figs. 21, 22
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Wilson, 1957b: 373). Type localities: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Lemien (forest, nr Berlinhafen (= Aitepe)) (L. Biró), and Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Tamara I. (L. Biró). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker, 1 paralectotype queen. Type localities: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Lemien (forest, nr Berlinhafen (= Aitepe)) (L. Biró), and Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Tamara I. (L. Biró). Secondary type depository: HNHM.
Type notes Wilson, 1957b: 373, 375, does not specify the locality of the lectotype.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cryptopone tenuis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Ponera tenuis (Emery, 1900)
Original combination
Ponera tenuis Species Valid