Pheidole emersoni

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

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Pheidole emersoni Wheeler, 1922 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole perpusilla Emery, 1894

Pheidole (Hendecapheidole) emersoni Wheeler, 1922f: 4, fig. 2 (w.q.m.) GUYANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype minor workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 1 syntype queen, 8 syntype males. Primary type locality: Guyana (“British Guiana”): Kartabo (A. Emerson). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 190; Bolton, 1995b: 321.
Junior synonym of Pheidole perpusilla: Wilson, 2003a: 553; Longino, 2009: 61.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2009. Additions to the taxonomy of New World Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2181:1-90. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922f. A new genus and subgenus of Myrmicinae from tropical America. American Museum Novitates 46:1-6. 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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