Protonym: Monomorium minutum subsp. ergatogyna
Authorship Wheeler, 1904e: 269
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (California: Catalina I.)
Primary type information Type-material: lectotype ergatoid queen (by designation of DuBois, 1986: 88). Type-locality: U.S.A.: California, Catalina I., 1904 (C.F. Baker). Type-depositories: AMNH, MCZC.
Type notes DuBois, 1986: 88, counts 21 workers, 16 queens in AMNH, and 12 workers, 17 queens in MCZC, all apparently from the type-locality. This does not tally with Wheeler’s original comment that the syntypes were “numerous workers and eight females taken from three different nests”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Monomorium ergatogyna Species Valid
Monomorium minutum ergatogyna Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Monomorium ergatogyna Wheeler, 1904
Original combination