Protonym: Formica anceps
Authorship Roger, 1863a: 164
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality WEST MALAYSIA
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 42). Primary type locality: neotype Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur, 9.ii.1967, A-290-1 (D.H. Murphy). Primary type depository: ANIC.
Type notes Original type data: holotype (?) worker [no indication of number of specimens is given]: Malaysia: Malacca (no collector’s name), depository unknown. Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 42, say type material “could not be located”, and is “probably destroyed”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica anceps Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Iridomyrmex anceps (Roger, 1863)
Original combination
Iridomyrmex anceps Species Valid