Protonym: Myrmica pellucida
Authorship Smith, 1857a: 71
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality SINGAPORE
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Singapore: (no further data) “House ant, very active, but not destructive” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903062.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 449, and Shattuck, 1994: 148, cite 4 worker syntypes in BMNH (1 incorrectly labelled as holotype). 2) 4 worker syntypes in OXUM, “without locality label but with Smith determination label (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Myrmica pellucida Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tapinoma pellucida (Smith, 1857)
Original combination
Tapinoma pellucida Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)