Pheidole wheeleri

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

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Pheidole wheeleri Mann, 1916 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole polita Emery, 1894

Pheidole (Pheidole) wheeleri Mann, 1916: 431, pl. 3, fig. 23 (s.w.) BRAZIL (Rondônia). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Mato Grosso (now Rondônia), Madeira-Mamoré Railroad Company Camp 39, 1911, (Stanford Expd.) (W.M. Mann). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 106; Borgmeier, 1927c: 91; Kempf, 1972b: 204; Bolton, 1995b: 332.
Junior synonym of Pheidole polita: Wilson, 2003a: 734.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1916. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The ants of Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:399-490. 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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