Protonym: Paracryptocerus (Harnedia) patei
Authorship Kempf, 1951: 235, figs. 151, 153-155
Forms s.w.q.m.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality COLOMBIA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: (no further data; specimens intercepted in quarantine at Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., 10.iv.1946, on imported Cattleya sp. orchids, no. 46-8631). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 15 paratype workers, 5 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: MZSP, USNM.
Type notes Confusion in contents of type-series. On p. 235 Kempf says “Types – worker, soldier”, and specifies the date 10.iv.1946, and collection no. 46-8631; on p. 237 a “soldier (paratype)” is described, but on p. 240 he says “16 workers, 5 females (holotype and paratypes)”, quoting the correct date but omitting the collection number, and with no soldier included. In addition, De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 517, quote the type-series as “paratypes numerous workers, soldiers, gynes and one male”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes patei Species Valid
Paracryptocerus patei Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes patei (Kempf, 1951)
Original combination