Pheidole watsoni

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Pheidole watsoni Forel, 1902 valid

Pheidole watsoni Forel, 1902c: 171 (diagnosis in key), 189 (s.w.) MYANMAR, INDIA (Odisha, West Bengal), SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Myanmar (“Upper Burma”): Myingyan (Watson), India: Orissa (Taylor), India: Calcutta (G.A.J. Rothney), Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (G.A.J. Rothney). Primary type depository: MHNG.

[Also described as new by Forel, 1902g: 541.]
Status as species: Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 237; Emery, 1922c: 95; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 152; Bolton, 1995b: 332; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 319; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 50; Bharti et al., 2016: 43; Dias et al., 2020: 88.

Citations

Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Dias, R. K. S.; Guénard, B.; Akbar, S. A.; Economo, E. P.; Udayakantha, W. S.; Wachkoo, A. A. 2020. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist. ZooKeys 967:1-142. 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
Forel, A. 1902g. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IX. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:520-546. PDF
Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
Mathew, R.; Tiwari, R. N. 2000. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Pp. 251-409 in: Director; Zoological Survey of India (ed.) 2000. Fauna of of Meghalaya. Part 7. [State Fauna Series 4.] Insecta 2000. Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 621 pp. PDF
Mohanraj, P.; Ali, M.; Veerakumari, K. 2010. Formicidae of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Indian Ocean: Bay of Bengal). Journal of Insect Science 10 (Article 172):1-11. PDF
Rothney, G. A. J. 1903. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Barrackpore, Bengal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903:93-116.

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