Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) barumtaun
Donisthorpe, 1938a:
141, figs. 1, 2 (s.w.m.)
NEW GUINEA (Indonesia).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 8 syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (number not stated), 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Cyclops Mts, Mt Lina, 3500-4500 ft, iii.1936 (L.E. Cheesman). Primary type depository: BMNH.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 317; Sarnat et al., 2016: 13 (redescription).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1938a. Five new species of ant, chiefly from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)1:140-148. PDF
- Sarnat, E. M.; Fischer, G.; Economo, E. P. 2016. Inordinate spinescence: taxonomic revision and microtomography of the Pheidole cervicornis species group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). PLoS ONE 11 (7):24 pp. e0156709. 10.1371/journal.pone.0156709 PDF