Protonym: Myrmecocystus melliger subsp. mendax
Authorship Wheeler, 1908g: 351, fig. 4
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Colorado)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Snelling, 1976: 38). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Colorado, Mt Washington, nr Colorado Springs, 19.vii.1903 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: AMNH.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: paralectotype workers, paralectotype queens, paralectotype males (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Myrmecocystus melliger mendax Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Myrmecocystus mendax Wheeler, 1908
Original combination
Myrmecocystus mendax Species Valid