Pheidole ceres

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Pheidole ceres Wheeler, 1904 valid

Pheidole ceres Wheeler, 1904a: 10 (s.w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Colorado). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Wilson, 2003a: 570). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Colorado, Cheyenne Mt, nr Colorado Springs (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Creighton, 1950a: 174; no lectotype designated). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype minor worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: 1) Original description cites numerous major and minor worker, queen, and male syntypes. 2) Other original syntype localities: U.S.A.: Colorado, Ute Pass (W.M. Wheeler), Colorado, Boulder (J. Schmitt), U.S.A.: New Mexico, San Geronimo (M. Cooper), New Mexico, Manzanares (M. Cooper), New Mexico, San Ignacio (T.D.A. & W.P. Cockerell), New Mexico, arroyo 5 mi. SE Las Vegas (T.D.A. Cockerell).

Lectotype designation: Wilson, 2003a: 570.
[Pheidole ceres Wheeler, 1903h: 666 (in text). Nomen nudum.]
Status as species: Wheeler, 1906i: 337; Wheeler, 1908h: 437; Wheeler, 1910a: 563; Wheeler, 1914c: 46; Emery, 1922c: 105; Cole, 1937a: 99; Creighton, 1950a: 174; Smith, 1951c: 801; Cole, 1953g: 297; Smith, 1958c: 121; Gregg, 1959: 14 (in key); Beck et al., 1967: 72; Smith, 1967a: 353; Kempf, 1972b: 188; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1368; Allred, 1982: 493; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 43; MacKay et al., 1988: 95; Bolton, 1995b: 319; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 178; Wilson, 2003a: 570 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Pheidole ceres tepaneca: Wilson, 2003a: 570.

Junior synonyms

Pheidole ceres tepaneca Wheeler, 1914

Citations

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