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Pheidole spathifera Forel, 1902 valid

Pheidole spathifera Forel, 1902c: 168 (diagnosis in key), 187 (s.w.q.m.) SRI LANKA, INDIA (Tamil Nadu, Kerala). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”) (no further data) (Yerbury), India: Coonoor (Daly), India: Coonoor (R.C. Wroughton), India: Trevandrum (Ferguson), India: Nilgiris (R.C. Wroughton), India: Cochin (Ferguson). Primary type depository: MHNG.

[Also describrd as new by Forel, 1902g: 539.]
Status as species: Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 232; Forel, 1907d: 22; Emery, 1921c: 94; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 150; Bolton, 1995b: 330; Tiwari, 1999: 39; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 35; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 50; Bharti et al., 2016: 43; Dias et al., 2020: 86; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 116.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

P. s. aspatha Forel, 1902
P. s. yerburyi Forel, 1902

Citations

Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
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
Dias, R. K. S.; Guénard, B.; Akbar, S. A.; Economo, E. P.; Udayakantha, W. S.; Wachkoo, A. A. 2020. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist. ZooKeys 967:1-142. 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
Forel, A. 1902g. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IX. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:520-546. PDF
Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. PDF
Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
Jaitrong, W.; Nabhitabhata, J. 2005. A list of known ant species of Thailand (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(1):9-54. PDF
Khachonpisitsak, S.; Yamane, S.; Sriwichai, P.; Jaitrong, W. 2020. An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 998:1-182. 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF
Rothney, G. A. J. 1903. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Barrackpore, Bengal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903:93-116.
Tiwari, R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96. PDF

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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