Protonym: Hemioptica scissa
Authorship Roger, 1862a: 240, pl. 1, fig. 12
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality SRI LANKA, INDIA
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Dorow & Kohout, 1995: 100). Primary type locality: lectotype Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (Nietner). Primary type depository: MNHU.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MNHU.
Type notes 1) Original type data: 2 workers Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) in MNHU, 3 workers, 2 queens India (“Ostindien”): (no further data) in MNHN. 2) Dorow & Kohout, 1995: 100, say the MNHN specimens are “all presumed lost”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Hemioptica scissa Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Polyrhachis scissa (Roger, 1862)
Original combination
Polyrhachis scissa Species Valid