Protonym: Sima rufonigra var. ceylonensis
Authorship Forel, 1909k: 394
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality SRI LANKA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: workers Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data), 1908-09 (E. & I. Bugnion), workers, queen Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (Yerbury). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes Ward, 2001: 650, cites 24 worker, 1 queen syntypes.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Sima rufonigra ceylonensis Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetraponera rufonigra ceylonensis (Forel, 1909)
Original combination
Tetraponera rufonigra ceylonensis Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera rufonigra (Jerdon, 1851)