Protonym: Ectatomma gibbum
Authorship Kugler & Brown, 1982: 4, fig. 1
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality COSTA RICA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Heredia, La Selva Research Station, x.1972 (M. Lloyd). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, more than 16). Secondary type localities: 14 paratypes with same data as holotype but “various dates spread through 1972 (M. Lloyd)”, and i.1973 (W.L. Brown) and Costa Rica: Turrialba (N.A. Weber), Rio Reventazon 3-5km E of Turrialba (W.L. Brown); 2 paratype workers Nicaragua: El Tuma, Highway 5, 30 km E of Matagalpa, 330 m (C. Kugler and J. Hahn); paratypes (number not stated) Honduras: Lancetilla, nr Tela (no collector) and forest behind Lancetilla Botanical Gardens (W.L. Brown), Corocito, 1924 (Prov. Colon) (no collector). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, CUIC, MCZC, MNHN, MZSP, USNM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Ectatomma gibbum Species Valid Original combination