sentences:  Forel named it in 1892 to honor Major Thomas Broun, a significant pioneering amateur entomologist in New Zealand, but the name was mistakenly published as "brownii" (i.e.for "Brown" not "Broun", and with an incorrect second "i").These errors were corrected by Wheeler (1923), who then also named a spurious subspecies ""Heteroponera brouni kirki", later synonymised under "H. brouni" by W.L.