Pheidole borgmeieri
Kempf, 1972
valid
Pheidole borgmeieri
Kempf, 1972d:
461, figs. 11-14 (s.w.)
BRAZIL (São Paulo).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: São Paulo, nr Juquitiba on São Paulo-Curitiba Highway, 1.x.1961 (W.W. Kempf). Primary type depository: MZSP.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 21 paratype major workers, 31 paratype minor workers. Secondary type localities: 3 paratype major workers, 8 paratype minor workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype major worker, 2 paratype minor workers with same data as holotype but 8.viii.1960, 17 paratype major workers, 21 paratype minor workers nr São Paulo City, Serra da Cantareira, 20.viii.1958 (K. Lenko). Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MZSP.
- Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 369; Bolton, 1995b: 318; Wilson, 2003a: 381 (redescription).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972d. A study of some Neotropical ants of genus Pheidole Westwood. I. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 15:449-464. PDF
- Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.