Pheidole niapuana

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

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Pheidole niapuana Wheeler, 1922 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole pulchella Santschi, 1910

Pheidole niapuana Wheeler, 1922: 136, fig. 34 (s.w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Niapu, vi.1913 (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: AMNH, USNM (perhaps also MCZC).

[Misspelled as niapuala by Santschi, 1930a: 59.]
Junior synonym of Pheidole pulchella: Santschi, 1930a: 59; Santschi, 1939b: 242; Bolton, 1995b: 326; Fischer et al., 2012: 33.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Fischer, G.; Hita Garcia, F.; Peters, M. K. 2012. Taxonomy of the ant genus Pheidole Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographic region: definition of species groups and systematic revision of the Pheidole pulchella group. Zootaxa 3232:1-43. PDF
Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77. PDF
Santschi, F. 1939b. Fourmis de Rhodesia et du Congo. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 79:237-246. 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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