Protonym: Leptothorax personatus
Authorship Cagniant, 1987c: 243, figs. 1-3
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality MOROCCO
Primary type information Primary type material: 117 syntype worker, 2 syntype queens, 3 syntype males. Primary type localities: 28 workers, 1 queen Morocco: Middle Atlas, 22 km. S Azrou “as the bird flies”, around Aïn Khala Maison Forestière, 20.v.1982 (H. Cagniant), 20 workers Morocco: Middle Atlas, nr Ifrane, 16.v.1982 (H. Cagniant), 5 workers Middle Atlas, foot of Djebel Hebri, 1920 m., 19.v.1982 (H. Cagniant), 64 workers, 1 queen Middle Atlas, nr Ifrane, 19.v.1984 (H. Cagniant), 3 males eclosed vii.1984 from colony vic. Ifrane, 19.v.1984 (X. Espadaler). Primary type depositories: HCPC, MNHN (perhaps also XEPC).
Type notes 25 workers, 1 queen are referred to as syntypes, while 25 workers are referred to as paratypes, 64 workers, 1 queen are referred to as ‘plesiotypes’, and 3 males are called ‘androplesiotypes’, but no holotype is designated. All specimens are regarded as syntypes here.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptothorax personatus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax personatus (Cagniant, 1987)
Original combination
Temnothorax personatus Species Valid