Pheidole caffra

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Pheidole caffra Emery, 1895 valid

Pheidole caffra Emery, 1895i: 33 (s.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: Hamman’s Kraal, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904210.

Santschi, 1939b: 239 (w.)
Status as species: Mayr, 1896: 241 (in key); Santschi, 1910c: 361; Arnold, 1920a: 478; Emery, 1921c: 88; Wheeler, 1922: 130, 808; Santschi, 1939b: 238; Bolton, 1995b: 318.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

P. c. abyssinica Forel, 1910
P. c. amoena Forel, 1911
P. c. bayeri Forel, 1916
P. c. montivaga Santschi, 1939
P. c. senilifrons Wheeler, 1922

Citations

Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Mayr, G. 1896. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. 5. Formiciden gesammelt von Herrn Yngve Sjöstedt. Entomologisk Tidskrift 17:225-252. PDF
Santschi, F. 1910c ("1909"). Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78:349-400. PDF
Santschi, F. 1939b. Fourmis de Rhodesia et du Congo. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 79:237-246. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 5 valid subspecies

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