Protonym: Myrmica caeca
Authorship Smith, 1860b: 108
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Indonesia)
Primary type information Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Indonesia (“New Guinea): Dory, “59.58” (A.R. Wallace). Type-depository: BMNH. Type-specimen: BMNH(ENT) 1014937.
Type notes Donisthorpe, 1932c: 463, states that this “insect is not in the Oxford Collection nor at the B.M.” Two worker syntypes are present in BMNH, labelled “59.58 Dory, New Guinea.”
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Liomyrmex caeca Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Liomyrmex gestroi (Emery, 1887)
Myrmica caeca Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Liomyrmex caeca (Smith, 1860)
Original combination