Pheidole (Pheidole) atua
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b:
43, fig. 32 (s.w.)
SAMOA (Upolu I.).
Oceania.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: Samoa: Upolu I., Afiamalu, 700 m., 17.iii.1962, acc. 353 (R.W. Taylor). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype major workers, 25 paratype minor workers. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but 16.iii.1962, acc. 308. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BPBM, MCZC.
- Status as species: Dlussky, 1994a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 317; Wetterer & Vargo, 2003: 416.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
- Wetterer, J. K.; Vargo, D. L. 2003. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samoa. Pacific Science 57:409-419. PDF
- Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF