Pheidole spinulosa

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Pheidole spinulosa Forel, 1910 valid

Pheidole spinulosa Forel, 1910f: 438 (s.w.q.m.) LESOTHO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Lesotho (“Pays des Basutos”): (no further data) (R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0907795, CASENT0907796.

Status as species: Emery, 1915i: 250; Arnold, 1920a: 453; Emery, 1921c: 87; Wheeler, 1922: 821; Bolton, 1995b: 330.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

P. s. conigera Forel, 1910
P. s. messalina Forel, 1910

Citations

Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1915i. Les Pheidole du groupe megacephala (Formicidae). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 4:223-250. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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