Protonym: Pheidole njassae var. sculptior
Authorship Viehmeyer, 1914b: 36
Forms s.w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality TANZANIA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania: Khutu Steppe, Bez. Morogoro (K. Schwarze). Primary type depository: perhaps MNHU.
Type notes Original description says depository is “im Zoolog. Mus. zu Dresden”, in which case the specimens would have been destroyed in World War II.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Pheidole njassae sculptior Subspecies Homonym
homonym replaced by Pheidole njassae legitima Santschi, 1916
Original combination