Protonym: Atta coptophylla
Authorship Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 422
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data) (Lund). Primary type depository: MNHN.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Atta coptophylla Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Atta sexdens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Original combination