Protonym: Strumigenys collinsae
Authorship Booher, 2021: 224, fig. 37
Forms dq.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Colorado)
Etymology This species is named in honor of the brilliant entomologist and civil rights advocate Dr. Margaret S. Collins. The name was created by adding the singular Latin genitive case suffix -ae to the last name of a female person. The orthography of an eponym is unchangeable and not dependent on the generic name in which the epithet is used.
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype dealate queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Pueblo County, 23 miles north of Walsenburg, berlese of sifted litter, estimated GPS 37.939013, -104.812018 ±2500m, 1802m, 15.viii.1958, #124 (Clayton Hoff). Primary type depository: FMNH. Primary type specimen: FMNH-INS 0000 119 056.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Strumigenys collinsae Species Valid Original combination