Pheidole plebecula

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

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Pheidole plebecula Forel, 1899 valid

Pheidole plebecula Forel, 1899e: 68 (s.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Alajuela (A. Alfaro) (received from Emery). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904359. Type notes: Wilson, 2003a: 779, says that type material of this taxon could not be found, but Longino, 2019: 54, notes it in MSNG.

Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Pheidole: Wilson, 2003a: 779.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 99; Kempf, 1972b: 198; Bolton, 1995b: 327; Longino, 2019: 54.
Senior synonym of Pheidole perdiligens: Longino, 2019: 54.
Senior synonym of Pheidole texticeps: Longino, 2019: 54.

Junior synonyms

Pheidole perdiligens Wilson, 2003
Pheidole texticeps Wilson, 2003

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1899e. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:57-80. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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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