Pheidole pallidula arenarum
Ruzsky, 1905
an obsolete combination of Pheidole arenarum Ruzsky, 1905
Pheidole pallidula var. arenarum
Ruzsky, 1905b:
647 (s.w.m.)
TURKMENISTAN, UZBEKISTAN.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Turkmenistan: Ashkabad, Kopet-Dag, v.-vi.1902 (V. Arnoldov & A. Semenov), Uzbekistan: Golodnaya Steppe, Khodzhentsk, 18-26.iv.1903, 25.v.1903 (Z.M.Ak.M. Yakobson). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes:
Type material apparently lost, not found in MSNG or ZISP by Seifert, 2016b: 9.
Infrasubspecies
- P. p. a. orientalis Emery, 1915
Citations
- Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
- Seifert, B. 2016b. Inconvenient hyperdiversity – the traditional concept of “Pheidole pallidula” includes four cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Soil Organisms 88 (1):1-17. PDF