Pheidole opaca apterostigmoides

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

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Pheidole opaca apterostigmoides Weber, 1943 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole vorax (Fabricius, 1804)

Pheidole opaca subsp. apterostigmoides Weber, 1943b: 71, fig. 3 (s.w.) TRINIDAD. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated, “from a colony”). Primary type locality: Trinidad (“British West Indies”): Basin Hill Forest Reserve, 1.iv.1935, no. 92 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Subspecies of Pheidole cephalica: Kempf, 1972b: 188; Bolton, 1995b: 317.
Junior synonym of Pheidole cephalica: Wilson, 2003a: 674.
Junior synonym of Pheidole vorax: Longino, 2009: 86.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2009. Additions to the taxonomy of New World Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2181:1-90. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1943b. New ants from Venezuela and neighboring countries. Boletín de Entomologia Venezolana 2:67-78. 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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