Pheidole ampla norfolkensis

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

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Pheidole ampla norfolkensis Wheeler, 1927 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole vigilans (Smith, 1858)

Pheidole ampla subsp. norfolkensis Wheeler, 1927i: 134, fig. 3 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Norfolk I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Norfolk I., 1915 (A.M. Lea). Primary type depository: MCZC (perhaps also SAMA).

Donisthorpe, 1941e: 91 (q.m.)
Subspecies of Pheidole ampla: Wheeler, 1935g: 17; Donisthorpe, 1941e: 91.
Junior synonym of Pheidole vigilans: Brown, 1971b: 13; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 79; Taylor, 1987a: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 326; Sarnat et al., 2015: 71.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1971b. The identity and synonymy of Pheidole vigilans, a common ant of southeastern Australia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10:13-14. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1941e. The ants of Norfolk Island. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 77:90-93. 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
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1927i. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:121-153. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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