Protonym: Neoclystopsenella luffae
Authorship Kurian, 1955: 133, figs. 249-255
Forms m.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDIA (National Capital Territory)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: India: Delhi, 2.vii.1938, slide no. 92B, on Luffa, Imperial Entomologist (Kapoor). Primary type depository: FRID.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 3 paratype males. Secondary type locality: 2 paratype males with same data as holotype but slides no. 77/B, 79/B, 1 paratype male with same data as holotype but 5.vii.1938, on cowpea, slide no. 55/B. Secondary type depository: FRID.
Type notes Brown, 1988a: 337, says “type place of deposit is unknown”, which Guerrero, 2018: 500, interpreted as “type material lost”; apparently neither author checked FRID.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Neoclystopsenella luffae Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tapinoma luffae (Kurian, 1955)
Original combination
Tapinoma luffae Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)