Protonym: Solenopsis salina
Authorship Wheeler, 1908h: 427, pl. 26, figs. 24, 25
Forms w.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Texas)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a number…from a single colony”). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, Fort Davis (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.
Type notes Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 296, were unable to find any sytypes. In the original description Wheeler also mentions “a great many specimens” Mexico: Chihuahua, Ojos del Diablo, Santo Domingo Ranch (C.H.T. Townsend), but it is not certain that he intended these should also be regarded as syntypes.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Solenopsis salina Species Valid Original combination