Pheidole picata gietleni

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Pheidole picata gietleni Forel, 1905 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole spinosa Forel, 1891

Pheidole punctulata r. gietleni Forel, 1905e: 164 (s.w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Salata & Fisher, 2022: 19). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Fianarantsoa (Gietlen). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0103296 (lectotype; top specimen on pin). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype major worker, 2 paralectotype minor workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0103297 (bottom specimen on pin), CASENT0103307, CASENT0103308.

Lectotype designation: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 19.
Subspecies of Pheidole punctulata: Forel, 1914d: 240.
Subspecies of Pheidole picata: Emery, 1915i: 245; Emery, 1921c: 87; Wheeler, 1922: 1020; Bolton, 1995b: 322.
Junior synonym of Pheidole megacephala: Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 333; Sarnat et al., 2015: 51.
Junior synonym of Pheidole spinosa: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 19.

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole punctulata gietleni

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1915i. Les Pheidole du groupe megacephala (Formicidae). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 4:223-250. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. 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. 1905e. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 49:155-185. PDF
Forel, A. 1914d. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:211-288. PDF
Salata, S.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the Pheidole megacephala species-group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Malagasy Region. PeerJ 10:30 pp. e13263. 10.7717/peerj.13263 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
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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