Pheidole bessonii

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Pheidole bessonii Forel, 1891 valid

Pheidole oswaldi r. bessonii Forel, 1891c: 176, pl. 5, fig. 3 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Salata & Fisher, 2020c: 17). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Fianarantsoa (L. Besson). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101838 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype minor workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG.

Lectotype designation: Salata & Fisher, 2020c: 17.
Forel, 1905e: 162 (s.)
Subspecies of Pheidole oswaldi: Emery, 1893m: 94 (footnote).
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 88; Forel, 1905e: 162; Emery, 1921c: 88; Wheeler, 1922: 1017; Bolton, 1995b: 318; Salata & Fisher, 2020c: 17 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole oswaldi bessonii

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1905e. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 49:155-185. PDF
Salata, S.; Fisher, B. L. 2020c. The ant genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Madagascar—taxonomic revision of the bessonii species-group. Zootaxa 4843:1-64. 10.11646/zootaxa.4843.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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