Pheidole metallescens splendidula

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

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Pheidole metallescens splendidula Wheeler, 1908 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole metallescens Emery, 1895

Pheidole metallescens subsp. splendidula Wheeler, 1908h: 474, pl. 26, figs. 20, 21 (s.w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “numerous”), 2 syntype males. Primary type localities: U.S.A.: Texas, Del Rio (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Creighton, 1950a: 183; no lectotype designated), U.S.A.: Texas, Austin (W.M. Wheeler), Texas, Montopolis (W.M. Wheeler), Texas, Del Valle (W.M. Wheeler), Texas, Marble Falls (W.M. Wheeler), Texas, Denton (W.H. Long). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC.

Subspecies of Pheidole metallescens: Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 108; Menozzi, 1932b: 311; Creighton, 1950a: 183; Smith, 1951c: 803; Smith, 1958c: 122; Gregg, 1959: 13 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1371; Bolton, 1995b: 330.
Junior synonym of Pheidole metallescens: Wilson, 2003a: 453.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Gregg, R. E. 1959 ("1958"). Key to the species of Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 66:7-48. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1932b. Formiche del Nord America raccolte dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 26:310-312. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1908h. The ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (Part I.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:399-485. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. 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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