Protonym: Leptothorax curvispinosus
Authorship Mayr, 1866a: 508, pl., fig. 13
Forms w.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality NORTH AMERICA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: “Nordamerika”: (no further data). Primary type depositories: MSNG, NNML (perhaps also NHMW).
Type notes 1) Wheeler, 1903d: 240, gives type locality as, “?District of Columbia”. 2) Mackay, 2000: 338, says specimens could not be located in Roger’s collection in MNHU, but in the original description Mayr, 1866a comments that they are “im zoologischen Museum in Leyden” (NNML).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptothorax curvispinosus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax curvispinosus (Mayr, 1866)
Original combination
Temnothorax curvispinosus Species Valid