Pheidole pyriformis

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

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Pheidole pyriformis Clark, 1938 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole bos Forel, 1893

Pheidole pyriformis Clark, 1938: 371, figs. 10, 11 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: South Australia, Reevesby I. (“many nests”) (J. Clark), South Australia, Winceby I. (“one nest”) (J. Clark), South Australia, English I. (“one specimen”) (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 77; Taylor, 1987a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 328.
Junior synonym of Pheidole bos: Heterick, 2021: 14.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
Heterick, B. E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 86:245 pp. 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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