Protonym: Proceratium avium
Authorship Brown, 1974a: 72, figs. 1, 2
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Malagasy
Locality MAURITIUS
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Mauritius: Moka Range, Le Pouce Mt, 700-800 m., 1.iv.1969, unnumbered colony, native forest (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: >38 paratype workers (total not stated), 1 paratype queen, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: >19 paratype workers, queen, male with same data as holotype, paratype workers with same data as holotype but colony no. ICA-69, 30.iii.1969 (W.L. Brown), paratype workers with same data as holotype but colony no. M-252 (W.L. Brown). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, CUIC, MCZC, NHMB.
Type notes Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 131, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Proceratium avium Species Valid Original combination