Protonym: Leptothorax (Macromischa) gibbifer
Authorship Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 444, figs. 56, 132
Forms w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality CUBA
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Cuba: Hoboken, 23.v.1951, on orchid Encyclia (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but on indeterminate orchids or bromeliads. Secondary type depository: USNM.
Type notes Probably the ants were from Cuba, intercepted in quarantine at Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A.; no trace of a Hoboken in Cuba can be found.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptothorax gibbifer Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Temnothorax gibbifer (Baroni Urbani, 1978)
Original combination
Temnothorax gibbifer Species Valid