Pheidole megacephala ilgii

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

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Pheidole megacephala ilgii Forel, 1907 valid

Pheidole rotundata subsp. ilgii Forel, 1907f: 139 (w.q.m) ETHIOPIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype minor workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Ethiopia: Hiéka-Bourka, 1905 (M. de Rothschild), Karssa, 1905 (M. de Rothschild), Tchafianani, 1905 (M. de Rothschild), Kounhi, 1905 (M. de Rothschild), Addis Ababa, 1905 (M. de Rothschild), Harar, 1905 (M. de Rothschild). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Type locality restriction to Harar by Wheeler, 1922: 813, is set aside as it is based on material collected by A. Ilg (cited in Forel, 1907i: 82), not on original type material.

[Also described as new by Forel, 1907i: 82 (s.w.).]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Arnold, 1920a: 427.
Subspecies of Pheidole megacephala rotundata: Forel, 1913a: 128.
Subspecies of Pheidole megacephala: Emery, 1915i: 236, 244; Emery, 1921c: 85; Wheeler, 1922: 132, 813; Menozzi, 1930b: 81; Bolton, 1995b: 323.

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole rotundata ilgii

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. 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
Forel, A. 1907f. Fourmis d'Ethiopie récoltées par M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en 1905. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 26:129-144. PDF
Forel, A. 1907i. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2:75-92. PDF
Forel, A. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1930b. Formiche della Somalia italiana meridionale. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:76-130. 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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