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 (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 The original description records 14 syntype workers; the 10 unaccounted for should also be considered as paralectotypes. Probably in USNM and elsewhere.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tetramorium spinosum Species Valid
Xiphomyrmex spinosus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetramorium spinosum (Pergande, 1896)
Original combination