Pheidole biolleyi

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

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Pheidole biolleyi Forel, 1908 valid

Pheidole biolleyi Forel, 1908c: 48 (s.w.q.m.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Longino, 2019: 27). Primary type locality: lectotype Costa Rica: La Palma, 1600 m. (P. Biolley). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) Other original syntype locality: Costa Rica: Tablazo Coast (P. Biolley), which was earlier designated as type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 187. 2) Original syntype series includes major and minor workers, queens and males (numbers not stated), hence paralectotypes.

Lectotype designation: Longino, 2019: 27.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 104; Kempf, 1972b: 187; Bolton, 1995b: 318; Wilson, 2003a: 170 (redescription); Longino, 2019: 27.
Senior synonym of Pheidole biolleyi tristani: Wilson, 2003a: 170; Longino, 2019: 27.

Junior synonyms

Pheidole biolleyi tristani Forel, 1908

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1908c. Fourmis de Costa-Rica récoltées par M. Paul Biolley. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 44:35-72. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2019. Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Middle American wet forest. Zootaxa 4599:1-126. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1 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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