Pheidole inquilina

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

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Pheidole inquilina Forel, 1914 unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole megacephala atrox Forel, 1913

Pheidole inquilina Forel, 1914d: 240 (in text) (s. or q.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen or major worker (?). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe ("Rhodesia"): Bulawayo (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0901310, CASENT0907781, CASENT0907782.

[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Pheidole inquilina Wheeler, 1903h (Bolton, 1995b: 323).]
Status as species: Emery, 1921c: 84 (error).
Junior synonym of Pheidole megacephala atrox: Arnold, 1920a: 425 (in text); Wheeler, 1922: 816; Bolton, 1995b: 323.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1914d. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:211-288. 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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