Protonym: Tetramorium reitteri
Authorship Mayr, 1887: 621
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (São Paulo)
Etymology This species was named in honor of Edmund Reitter (1845–1920), an Austrian Entomologist specialist in Coleoptera who collected this species’ type specimens.
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 100). Primary type locality: lectotype BRAS[BRAZIL: São Paulo, in Metopias aglenus (Pselaphinae) nest], Collect. G. Mayr (E. Reitter). Primary type depository: NHMW. Primary type specimen: CASENT0919630 (lectotype). (Source: Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 100.)
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: NHMW. (Source: Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 100.)
Type notes 1) Original material included: syntype workers (number not stated); Brazil: São Paulo State (E. Reitter), deposited in NHMW. 2) Kempf, 1960f: 430, records 5 syntypes.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Hylomyrma reitteri Species Valid
Tetramorium reitteri Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Hylomyrma reitteri (Mayr, 1887)
Original combination