Pheidole chalca

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Pheidole chalca Wheeler, 1914 valid

Pheidole chalca Wheeler, 1914c: 44 (s.w.q.) MEXICO (Hidalgo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Wilson, 2003a: 396). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Hidalgo, Guerrero Mill, 1913 (W.M. Mann). 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: Original description cites major worker, minor worker and queen syntypes: “numerous specimens taken from many colonies”.

Lectotype designation: Wilson, 2003a: 396.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 107; Kempf, 1972b: 188; Bolton, 1995b: 319; Wilson, 2003a: 396 (redescription); Longino, 2019: 95.

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
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
Wheeler, W. M. 1914c. Ants collected by W. M. Mann in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:37-61. 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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