Protonym: Melissotarsus emeryi var. pilipes
Authorship Santschi, 1914b: 71
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality KENYA
Primary type information Primary type material: 6 syntype workers. Primary type locality: 1 worker Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Taveta, 750 m., st. n. 65, iii.1912 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 823). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0913016.
Type notes Other syntype locality: 5 workers Tanzania (“Afrique orientale allemande”): Mt Kilimanjaro, around Bismarckhügel, 2740 m., st. no. 70, iii.1912 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Melissotarsus emeryi pilipes Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Melissotarsus emeryi Forel, 1907
Original combination