Protonym: Epipheidole inquilina
Authorship Wheeler, 1903h: 664, fig. 5
Forms gynandromorph
Bioregion Nearctic
Locality U.S.A. (Colorado)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype gynandromorph. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, nr Colorado Springs, Broadmoor, 11.viii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes 1) Wheeler, 1903h comments, “found together with several normal males and females”, but these were not described. 2) Wheeler, 1904a: 15, adds that specimens were also found at: Colorado, vic. Colorado Springs, Red Rock Cañon, nr Garden of the Gods, 28.vii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler), and vic. Colorado Springs, Austin’s Bluff, 10.viii.(1903?) (W.M. Wheeler). 3) Creighton, 1950a: 194, mentions “types” in AMNH, MCZC, USNM, but these were probably the specimens mentioned in Wheeler, 1904a.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Epipheidole inquilina Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Pheidole inquilina (Wheeler, 1903)
Original combination
Pheidole inquilina Species Valid