Pheidole parva decanica

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

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Pheidole parva decanica Forel, 1902 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole parva Mayr, 1865

Pheidole parva var. decanica Forel, 1902c: 175 (diagnosis in key), 192 (s.w.q.m.) INDIA (Kerala, Karnataka). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Eguchi et al., 2007: 262). Primary type locality: lectotype India: Cochin (G.A.J. Rothney). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907985 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype major workers, 3 paralectotype minor workers, 3 paralectotype queens, 3 paralectotype males. Secondary type localities: 2 paralectotype major workers India: Cochin (G.A.J. Rothney), 3 paralectotype minor workers India: Kanara (E.H. Aitken), 3 paralectotype queens, 3 paralectotype males India: Belgaum (R.C. Wroughton). Secondary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Other original syntype localities: India: Poona (R.C. Wroughton), Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”) (no further data) (Yerbury).

Lectotype designation: Eguchi et al., 2007: 262.
[Also described as new by Forel, 1902g: 542.]
Subspecies of Pheidole parva: Forel, 1911c: 221; Forel, 1913l: 41; Emery, 1922c: 95; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 320.
Junior synonym of Pheidole parva: Eguchi et al., 2007: 261; Eguchi, 2008: 66; Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 340; Sarnat et al., 2015: 64.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Eguchi, K. 2008. A revision of northern Vietnamese species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 1902:1-118. PDF
Eguchi, K.; Yamane, S.; Zhou, S.-Y. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Pheidole rinae Emery complex. Sociobiology 50:257-284.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Fischer, G.; Fisher, B. L. 2013. A revision of Pheidole Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean and designation of a neotype for the invasive Pheidole megacephala. Zootaxa 3683:301-356. PDF
Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
Forel, A. 1902g. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IX. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:520-546. PDF
Forel, A. 1911c. Ameisen aus Ceylon, gesammelt von Prof. K. Escherich (einige von Prof. E. Bugnion). Pp. 215-228 in: Escherich, K. 1911. Termitenleben auf Ceylon. Jena: Gustav Fischer, xxxii + 262 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1913l. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Fischer, G.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P. 2015. Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution. ZooKeys 543:1-109. 10.3897/zookeys.543.6050 PDF

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