Pheidole punctatissima insulana

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

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Pheidole punctatissima insulana Wheeler, 1905 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole bilimeki Mayr, 1870

Pheidole punctatissima subsp. insulana Wheeler, 1905c: 93 (s.w.) BAHAMAS (Andros I.). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated, “several colonies”). Primary type locality: Bahamas: Andros I., Southern Bight, v.-vi.1904 (W.M. Wheeler) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 199). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC. Type notes: Other original syntype locality: Bahamas: New Providence I., Blue Hills, v.-vi.1904 (W.M. Wheeler).

Subspecies of Pheidole punctatissima: Emery, 1922c: 108; Kempf, 1972b: 199; Bolton, 1995b: 323 (error).
Subspecies of Pheidole punctatissima annectens: Brown, 1981: 525 (in text).
Junior synonym of Pheidole bilimeki: Wilson, 2003a: 378; Longino & Cox, 2009: 41; Sarnat et al., 2015: 35.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1981. Preliminary contributions toward a revision of the ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Part I. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 54:523-530. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T.; Cox, D. J. 2009. Pheidole bilimeki reconsidered (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1985:34-42. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Fischer, G.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P. 2015. Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution. ZooKeys 543:1-109. 10.3897/zookeys.543.6050 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1905c. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. 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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