Protonym: Formica sexspinosa
Authorship Latreille, 1802a: 126, pl. 4, fig. 21
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea)
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Kohout, 2010: 196). Primary type locality: neotype Papua New Guinea: West Sepik Prov., Pes Mission, 12 km. SW Aitepe, 3°11’S, 142°15’E, <50 m., 3.viii.1984, acc. 84.207 (R.J. Kohout). Primary type depository: ANIC.
Type notes 1) Original data: holotype queen, "Indes orientales": (no further data) (Labillardière), depository unknown (not in MNHN), “type presumed lost” (Taylor & Brown, 1985: 140, Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 519). 2) Other specimens from the same series as the neotype are in ANIC, QMBA.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica sexspinosa Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Polyrhachis sexspinosa (Latreille, 1802)
Original combination
Polyrhachis sexspinosa Species Valid