Pheidole simplex

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

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Pheidole simplex Wheeler, 1925 valid

Pheidole biconstricta subsp. simplex Wheeler, 1925a: 21 (s.) PERU. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Wilson, 2003a: 148). Primary type locality: lectotype Peru: Llinquipata (N. Holmgren). Type depositories: MCZC, NHRS (depository of lectotype is not stated). Secondary type information: Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Type depositories: MCZC, NHRS (depository of lectotype is not stated). Type notes: Original description cites 3 major workers as syntypes. Wilson, 2003a: 148, designated a paralectotype minor worker from Brazil: Aleixo, nr Manaus; neither the caste nor the locality appear in the original description.

Lectotype designation: Wilson, 2003a: 148.
Subspecies of Pheidole biconstricta: Kempf, 1972b: 187; Bolton, 1995b: 330.
Status as species: Wilson, 2003a: 148 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 121.

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole biconstricta simplex

Citations

Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1925a. Neotropical ants in the collections of the Royal Museum of Stockholm. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(8):1-55. 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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