Pheidole spinosa

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Pheidole spinosa Forel, 1891 valid

Pheidole megacephala var. spinosa Forel, 1891c: 178 (s.w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Salata & Fisher, 2022: 21). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Antananarivo (P. Camboué). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101330 (lectotype; top specimen). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype major workers, 2 paralectotype minor workers. Secondary type localities: 2 paralectotype major workers, 2 paralectotype minor workers with same data as lectotype, 2 paralectotype major workers Madagascar: Fianarantsoa (P. Camboué). Secondary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0876545, CASENT0101331, CASENT0101554, CASENT0101570.

Lectotype designation: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 21.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1915i: 235, 240; Emery, 1921c: 86.
Subspecies of Pheidole punctulata: Forel, 1905e: 164; Forel, 1907i: 81.
Subspecies of Pheidole megacephala: Forel, 1897d: 186; Forel, 1904c: 373; Wheeler, 1922: 1019; Bolton, 1995b: 330.
Status as species: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 17 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Pheidole picata bernhardae: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 20.
Senior synonym of Pheidole decepticon: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 20.
Senior synonym of Pheidole picata gietleni: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 19.
Senior synonym of Pheidole picata: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 18.
Senior synonym of Pheidole megacephala scabrior: Salata & Fisher, 2022: 17.

Junior synonyms

Pheidole decepticon Fischer & Fisher, 2013
Pheidole megacephala scabrior Forel, 1891
Pheidole picata Forel, 1891
Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole megacephala picata
Pheidole picata bernhardae Emery, 1915
Pheidole picata gietleni Forel, 1905
Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole punctulata gietleni

Obsolete combinations

Citations

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. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1897d. Ameisen aus Nossi-Bé, Majunga, Juan de Nova (Madagaskar), den Aldabra-Inseln und Sansibar, gesammelt von Herrn Dr. A. Voeltzkow aus Berlin. Mit einem Anhang über die von Herrn Privatdocenten Dr. A. Brauer in Marburg auf den Seychellen und von Herrn Perrot auf Ste. Marie (Madagaskar) gesammelten Ameisen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 21:185-208. PDF
Forel, A. 1904c ("1903"). Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya 8:368-388. PDF
Forel, A. 1905e. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 49:155-185. PDF
Forel, A. 1907i. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2:75-92. PDF
Salata, S.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the Pheidole megacephala species-group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Malagasy Region. PeerJ 10:30 pp. e13263. 10.7717/peerj.13263 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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