Protonym: Labidus (Typhlopone) thwaitsii
Authorship Shuckard, 1840c: 326
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality NO LOCALITY GIVEN
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none given (G.H.K. Thwaites). Primary type depository: unknown (“in the collection of Mr Thwaites”).
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Smith, 1858a: 111, says that the specimen(s) were in “sugar casks from South America”. There is no such statement in the original description, but if the comment is correct then Dorylus thwaitsii can not be a Dorylus species.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Dorylus thwaitsii Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylus fulvus (Westwood, 1839)
Labidus thwaitsii Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Dorylus thwaitsii (Shuckard, 1840)
Original combination