Pheidole wheelerorum

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

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Pheidole wheelerorum MacKay, 1988 valid

Pheidole wheelerorum MacKay, 1988: 96, figs. 29, 30 (s.w.) U.S.A. (New Mexico). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: New Mexico, Los Alamos County, 4 km. N Los Alamos (Chupaderos Canyon), 19.viii.1986 (E. Mackay). Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype major workers, paratype minor workers (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, ESAC, FSCG, LACM, MCZC, MZSP, NMNH, NMSU, TAMU, UNAM, USNM, WEMC.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 332.
[Note: this species is omitted from Wilson, 2003a.]

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
MacKay, W. P. 1988. [Untitled. Pheidole wheelerorum W. MacKay new species.]. Pp. 96-98 in: MacKay, W. P.; Lowrie, D.; Fisher, A.; MacKay, E. E.; Barnes, F.; Lowrie, D. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 79-131 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. 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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