Protonym: Solenopsis laevis
Authorship Smith, 1865a: 75
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Morotai)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Morty Island (= Morotai I.), “M.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901378.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473, cites 1 worker in OXUM (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) Three other specimens labelled “Morty Isld” are also present in OXUM, but these appear to originate in a different series from the holotype; in addition, three more workers from this series are in BMNH (Bolton (unpublished notes 1978).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Pristomyrmex laevis Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Pristomyrmex umbripennis (Smith, 1863)
Solenopsis laevis Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pristomyrmex laevis (Smith, 1865)
Original combination