Protonym: Orectognathus rostratus
Authorship Lowery, 1967: 137, figs. 1, 2
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (New South Wales)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Mt Warning State Park, Karrumbyn Creek (= Breakfast Creek), 10 mi. W of Murwillumbah, ca 900 ft, 30.viii.1962, rainforest (B.B. Lowery). Primary type depository: ANIC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 5 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: “numerous” paratypes with same data as holotype, 6 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Queensland, Binna Burra, ex rotten log, rainforest, ca 3000 ft, 23.v.1962 (R.W. Taylor). Secondary type depositories: AMSC, ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, MCZC, MVMA, QMBA, SAMA, WAMP.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Orectognathus rostratus Species Valid Original combination