Pheidole melanogaster

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

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Pheidole melanogaster Donisthorpe, 1943 valid

Pheidole (Pheidole) melanogaster Donisthorpe, 1943e: 448 (s.w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype major worker, 1 syntype minor worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“N Dutch New Guinea”), Waigeu I., Camp Nok, 2500 ft, iv.-v.1938 (L.E. Cheesman). Primary type depository: BMNH.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 325.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1943e. The ants (Hym., Formicidae) of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:433-475. PDF

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