Protonym: Formica megacephala
Authorship Leach, 1825: 292
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality FRANCE
Primary type information Type-material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Type-locality: France: Nice (W.E. Leach). Type-depository: unknown (in BMNH, according to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 151).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica megacephala Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Messor megacephala (Leach, 1825)
Original combination
Messor megacephala Species Synonym
unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)