Protonym: Sima natalensis st. caffra
Authorship Santschi, 1914e: 15
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SOUTH AFRICA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Zululand, Dukudu, 27.viii.1905 (I. Trägårdh) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 799; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Zululand, Lake Sibayi, 7.x.1905 (I. Trägårdh). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB (perhaps also NHRS). Primary type specimen: CASENT0915532.
Type notes 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 88, cites 12 worker, 1 queen, 1 male syntypes in NHMB. 2) Ward, 2022: 48, cites 9 worker, 3 queen, 1 male syntypes in MHNG, NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Sima natalensis caffra Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetraponera caffra (Santschi, 1914)
Original combination
Tetraponera caffra Species Valid