Protonym: Technomyrmex atrichosus
Authorship Viehmeyer, 1922: 214
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality TANZANIA
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Tanzania (“E Africa”): Shirati, v.1909 (K. Katona). Primary type depositories: MNHU, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911582.
Type notes 1) B. Bolton interprets type locality as being Kenya, but Shirati is in Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. The original description states "Africa or.": Katona (Shirati 1909). 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 87, and Shattuck, 1994: 159, cite 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 3) 19 workers from the type series (but not included in the original description) are present in HNHM (Bolton, 2007b: 56).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Technomyrmex atrichosus Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Technomyrmex pallipes (Smith, 1876)
Original combination