Protonym: Tapinoma polita
Authorship Smith, 1855a: 112
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality UNITED KINGDOM (Wales)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: United Kingdom: Wales (J.C. Dale). Primary type depository: OUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901941.
Type notes 1) Smith, 1855a says “I have only seen the single example described; it is in the collection of J.C. Dale, Esq.”. 2) Whereabouts of Dale collection unknown.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Prenolepis polita Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Prenolepis nitens (Mayr, 1853)
Tapinoma polita Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Prenolepis polita (Smith, 1855)
Original combination