Protonym: Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) oceanica
Authorship Emery, 1900b: 333, pl. 8, fig. 44
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of LaPolla, 2004a: 76). Primary type locality: lectotype Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes Emery, 1900b: 334, says that the original syntype specimens (1 worker, 1 queen, 1 male) were taken one by one, and that he suspected the queen and male were the same species as the worker. The two sexual forms may be in HMNH.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Acropyga oceanica Species Valid Original combination