Protonym: Leptothorax (Dichothorax) pergandei
Authorship Emery, 1895d: 323, pl. 8, fig. 13
Forms w.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (District of Columbia)
Etymology Patronym, in honor of Theodore Pergande, a myrmecologist who sent his extensive collections to Forel and Emery.
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Prebus, 2021b: 240). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Washington, D.C., 9.10 (T. Pergande), no. 54078 U.S.N.M. cotype. Primary type depository: USNM. Primary type specimen: USNMENT00922524 (lectotype).
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 12 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories and specimens: MSNG: CASENT0904767; USNM: USNMENT00922508, USNMENT00922509, USNMENT00922510, USNMENT00922511, USNMENT00922515, USNMENT00922517, USNMENT00922518, USNMENT00922522, USNMENT00922523, USNMENT00922525, USNMENT00532783.
Type notes Prebus, 2021b: 240, interprets the code “9.10” on the syntype labels as “September, 1910”, but this cannot be correct as the specimens were described in 1895, and the validity of these specimens as syntypes has never been doubted.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptothorax pergandei Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax pergandei (Emery, 1895)
Original combination
Temnothorax pergandei Species Valid