Pheidole athertonensis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Pheidole athertonensis Forel, 1915 valid

Pheidole athertonensis Forel, 1915b: 62 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Atherton (E. Mjöberg). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG (perhaps also NHRS).

Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 96; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 75; Taylor, 1987a: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 317.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

P. a. cedarensis Forel, 1915
P. a. tambourinensis Forel, 1915

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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