Pheidole batrachorum
Wheeler, 1922
valid
Pheidole batrachorum
Wheeler, 1922:
128 (s.w.)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Fischer et al., 2012: 14). Primary type locality: lectotype Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, stomach of toad Bufo polycercus (H.O. Lang). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype major worker, 3 paralectotype minor workers. Secondary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, stomach of frog Arthroleptis variabilis (H.O. Lang). Secondary type depositories: AMNH, USNM (perhaps also MCZC).
Type notes:
1) Original description cites 4 syntype major workers, 21 syntype minor workers. 2) Other original syntype locality: Akenge, stomach of toad Bufo funereus (H.O. Lang).
- Lectotype designation: Fischer et al., 2012: 14.
- Junior synonym of Pheidole dea: Santschi, 1930a: 59; Bernard, 1953b: 224 (in text); Bolton, 1995b: 317.
- Status as species: Fischer et al., 2012: 14 (redescription).
Citations
- Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Fischer, G.; Hita Garcia, F.; Peters, M. K. 2012. Taxonomy of the ant genus Pheidole Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographic region: definition of species groups and systematic revision of the Pheidole pulchella group. Zootaxa 3232:1-43. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.