Protonym: Sima (Tetraponera) bidentata
Authorship Karavaiev, 1933c: 264, fig. 13
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDONESIA (Java)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Java, Buitenzorg (= Bogor), Botanical Garden, 16.xii.1912, no. 2890 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depository: SIZK.
Type notes 1) As well as Buitenzorg, Karavaiev, 1933c: 265-6, also cites workers from Java, Geser, 10.iv.1913, no. 5318, Java, Bantam, 7.i.1913, no. 2396, Java, Banda-Neira, no. 5325, and Sumbawa-Besar, no. 5326, but it is uncertain if these should be regarded as syntypes. 2) Ward, 2001: 636, cites 2 worker syntypes from Bogor.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Sima bidentata Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tetraponera bidentata (Karavaiev, 1933)
Original combination
Tetraponera bidentata Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera nitida (Smith, 1860)