Pheidole pusilla

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Pheidole pusilla (Heer, 1852) junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)

Oecophthora pusilla Heer, 1852: 15, pl. 1, figs. 1-4 (s.w.q.m.) PORTUGAL (Madeira). Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Portugal: Madeira (no collector’s name; perhaps O. Heer). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 108, Heer’s material is in the Entomology Department of THZS. However, Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 238, found much of Heer’s fossil material in GBWA, NHMW, and UMJA.

Combination in Pheidole: Smith, 1858a: 173.
Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 173; Mayr, 1861: 70 (in key); Mayr, 1863a: 441; Mayr, 1870b: 981 (in key); Mayr, 1877a: 18; Smith, 1879a: 675; Mayr, 1879: 674 (in key); Mayr, 1880: 38; Mayr, 1887: 597 (in key).
Subspecies of Pheidole megacephala: Emery, 1915i: 235, 239; Santschi, 1920i: 2; Emery, 1921c: 86; Donisthorpe, 1946i: 30.
Junior synonym of Pheidole megacephala: Roger, 1863b: 30; Dours, 1873: 169; André, 1874c: 204 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 463; Forel, 1891c: 176; Dalla Torre, 1892: 90; Dalla Torre, 1893: 92; Forel, 1895e: 231; Forel, 1899b: 76; Ruzsky, 1905b: 650; Wheeler, 1911g: 169; Wheeler, 1919f: 66; Wheeler, 1922: 812; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 389; Donisthorpe, 1935: 633; Smith, 1954c: 4; Kempf, 1972b: 196; Naves, 1985: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 328; Eguchi, 2001b: 77; Zhou, 2001a: 127; Eguchi, 2008: 56; Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 332; Sarnat et al., 2015: 50.

Obsolete combinations

Oecophthora pusilla

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