Protonym: Leptothorax obturator
Authorship Wheeler, 1903d: 249, pl. 12, fig. 19
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Texas)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “many specimens”). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, Austin (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.
Type notes Wheeler comments, “collected at different times from the abandoned Holcaspis cinerosus galls on the live oaks (Q. virginiana).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptothorax obturator Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax obturator (Wheeler, 1903)
Original combination
Temnothorax obturator Species Valid