Protonym: Xiphomyrmex spinosus
Authorship Pergande, 1896: 894
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality MEXICO (Baja California)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Bolton, 1979: 163). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Baja California, Sierra San Lazaro, Cape Region, ix.1894 (G. Eisen & Vaslit). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: USNM.
Type notes 1) Original description cites 14 worker syntypes. 2) Smith, 1938a: 129, cites 7 worker syntypes in USNM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tetramorium spinosum Species Valid
Xiphomyrmex spinosus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetramorium spinosum (Pergande, 1896)
Original combination