Pheidole capensis dregei

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

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Pheidole capensis dregei Emery, 1895 valid

Pheidole megacephala subsp. dregei Emery, 1895i: 34 (s.) SOUTH AFRICA, MOZAMBIQUE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: South Africa: Kimberley, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 809; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Makapan, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon), South Africa: Bloemfontein, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon), Mozambique: Delagoa Bay (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904201.

Subspecies of Pheidole capensis: Emery, 1915i: 246; Crawley, 1920b: 178; Emery, 1921c: 84; Wheeler, 1922: 808; Bolton, 1995b: 320.

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole megacephala dregei

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Crawley, W. C. 1920b. Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia (concluded). Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 32:177-179. PDF
Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
Emery, C. 1915i. Les Pheidole du groupe megacephala (Formicidae). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 4:223-250. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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