Protonym: Pogonomyrmex desertorum var. tenuispina
Authorship Forel, 1914d: 269
Forms w.
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality MEXICO
Primary type information Type-material: holotype (?) worker. Type-locality: U.S.A.(?): (no further data) (T. Pergande). Type-depository: MHNG.
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Creighton, 1950a: 125, says the type-locality is “uncertain, probably Lower California”, (= Mexico, Baja California). Cole, 1968: 77 agrees that the type-locality is unknown, but is most probably Baja California. Other specimens from the type-series may remain in Pergande collection, in USNM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Pogonomyrmex desertorum tenuispinus Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pogonomyrmex tenuispinus Forel, 1914
Original combination
Pogonomyrmex tenuispinus Species Valid