Protonym: Cryptocerus silvae
Authorship Forel, 1906d: 233
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality COLOMBIA
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Kempf, 1951: 203). Primary type locality: lectotype Colombia: Santa Marta (Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 14 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG, NHMB.
Type notes 1) Other original syntype localities (workers): Colombia: Sabanilla, Cienaga, Calabasso, and Ouriheka (A. Forel and F. Santschi); which localities by which collectors not explained. 2) De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 267, say the lectotype could not be found in MHNG.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes silvae Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cephalotes femoralis (Smith, 1853)
Cryptocerus silvae Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Cephalotes silvae (Forel, 1906)
Original combination