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Pheidole gauthieri Forel, 1901 valid

Pheidole ursus r. gauthieri Forel, 1901j: 367 (w.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, San Antonio-Dibulla path, 1896 (A. Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Wilson, 2003a: 693, designated the specimen as lectotype, but Forel said he had only “a single example” in the original description.

Subspecies of Pheidole ursus: Forel, 1909a: 250.
Status as species: Forel, 1912g: 233; Emery, 1922c: 108; Wheeler, 1942: 191; Kempf, 1972b: 193; Bolton, 1995b: 322; Wilson, 2003a: 693 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 259; Longino, 2019: 124; Serna et al., 2019: 966 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Pheidole gauthieri oxymora: Wilson, 2003a: 693

Junior synonyms

Pheidole gauthieri oxymora Forel, 1912

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole ursus gauthieri

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Forel, A. 1901j. Variétés myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:334-382. PDF
Forel, A. 1909a. Ameisen aus Guatemala usw., Paraguay und Argentinien (Hym.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909:239-269. PDF
Forel, A. 1912g. Formicides néotropiques. Part III. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae (suite). Genres Cremastogaster et Pheidole. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:211-237. 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
Serna, F. J.; Suárez, D.; Pérez, A.L. 2019. Género Pheidole. Capítulo 30. Pp. 917-1053 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. 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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