Protonym: Formica edax
Authorship Forskål, 1775: 84
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality PROBABLY EGYPT
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype (?) minor worker. Primary type locality: uncertain, probably Egypt (no further data) (P. Forskål). Primary type depository: unknown (no type material known to exist).
Type notes 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 79, Forskål material should be in ZMUC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica edax Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pheidole edax (Forskål, 1775)
Original combination
Pheidole edax Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)