Protonym: Tetramorium kydelphon
Authorship Bolton, 1979: 177
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Karema, Brown Riv., no. 601, 8-11.iii.1955, lowland rainforest (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated), 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
Type notes Bolton, 1979: 178, comments that other members of the type-series, plus two Papua New Guinea series, from Lai and Huon Peninsula, Lower Busu River (E.O. Wilson), stored in MCZC, are also to be regarded as paratypes.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tetramorium kydelphon Species Valid Original combination