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Pheidole plagiaria Smith, 1860 valid

Pheidole plagiaria Smith, 1860b: 112 (s.w.) INDONESIA (Bacan). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype major workers, 3 syntype minor workers (on three cards). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan I.), “Bac.”, “Bac. 26”, and “Bac. 35” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 464, cites 1 major worker, 1 minor worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 3 major worker, 3 minor worker syntypes in OXUM, on 3 cards (Card 1: 1s, 1w labelled “Bac.” with Smith’s original label plus Donisthorpe det. labels. Card 2: 2s labelled “Bac. 26.” with Smith det. label “plagiaria”. Card 3: 2w labelled “Bac. 35.” with Smith det. label “plagiaria”.

Forel, 1913l: 28 (q.m.); Eguchi, 2003: 332 (m.)
Status as species: Smith, 1862a: 49; Roger, 1863b: 31; Mayr, 1863a: 441; Smith, 1871a: 332; Mayr, 1879: 675 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 95; Emery, 1893g: 193; Emery, 1895m: 468; Emery, 1900: 682; Emery, 1901i: 567; Forel, 1902c: 181 (in key); Forel, 1902g: 546; Bingham, 1903: 261; Forel, 1905f: 16; Forel, 1907d: 22; Forel, 1911f: 386; Forel, 1913l: 28; Viehmeyer, 1913: 155; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 121; Emery, 1921c: 93; Wheeler, 1924c: 243; Crawley, 1924a: 394; Menozzi, 1930a: 1; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 464; Stitz, 1932b: 733; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 327; Eguchi, 2001b: 88 (redescription); Eguchi, 2003: 332; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 34; Eguchi, 2008: 73 (redescription); Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 49; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 50; Liu et al., 2015: 46; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 38; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 113; Wang et al., 2022: 93.
Senior synonym of Pheidole divergens: Mayr, 1879: 675 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 95; Emery, 1921c: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 327; Eguchi, 2001b: 88; Eguchi, 2008: 73.
Senior synonym of Pheidole peguensis yomensis: Eguchi, 2008: 73.

Junior synonyms

Pheidole divergens Mayr, 1867
Pheidole peguensis yomensis Forel, 1903

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

P. p. moica Forel, 1911
P. p. palawanica Stitz, 1925
P. p. rectilineata Viehmeyer, 1916

Citations

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Extant: 3 valid subspecies

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