Pheidole mooreorum

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Pheidole mooreorum Wilson, 2003 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole insipida Forel, 1899

Pheidole mooreorum Wilson, 2003a: 209, figs. (s.w.) MEXICO (Veracruz). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: Mexico: Veracruz, Estación Biológica Los Tuxtlas, 10 km. NNW Sontecomapan, 18°35’N, 95°05’W, 200 m. (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paratype minor worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Details of paratype castes and their numbers are not given.

Status as species: Longino, 2009: 56; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 259.
Junior synonym of Pheidole insipida: Longino, 2019: 40.

Citations

Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2009. Additions to the taxonomy of New World Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2181:1-90. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2019. Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Middle American wet forest. Zootaxa 4599:1-126. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1 PDF
Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.

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