Protonym: Myrmica modesta
Authorship Smith, 1860b: 108
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Bacan)
Primary type information Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan I.), “Bac 19” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM.
Type notes 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 463, cites 2 workers in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 3 worker syntypes in OXUM (2 on one card, 1 on another).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Myrmica modesta Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetramorium modesta (Smith, 1860)
Original combination
Tetramorium modesta Species Synonym
unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846)