Pheidole oceanica nigriscapa

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Pheidole oceanica nigriscapa Santschi, 1928 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole fervens Smith, 1858

Pheidole (Pheidole) oceanica var. nigriscapa Santschi, 1928a: 48, fig. 3a (s.w.) SAMOA (Upolu I.). Oceania.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype major worker, 7 syntype minor workers. Primary type locality: major worker Samoa: Upolu, Apia, 8.xii.1925 (no collector’s name), minor workers Samoa: Upolu, Apia, 3.iii.1924, and x.1911 (H. Swale). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0913313.

Subspecies of Pheidole oceanica: Wheeler, 1932g: 15; Wheeler, 1935g: 19; Wheeler, 1936g: 6.
Junior synonym of Pheidole fervens: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 45; Bolton, 1995b: 326; Eguchi, 2001b: 53; Zhou, 2001a: 130; Eguchi, 2004: 197; Eguchi, 2008: 24; Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 322; Sarnat et al., 2015: 39.

Infrasubspecies

P. o. n. tahitiana Santschi, 1928

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Eguchi, K. 2001b. A revision of the Bornean species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Tropics Monograph Series 2:1-154. PDF
Eguchi, K. 2004. Taxonomic revision of two wide-ranging Asian ants, Pheidole fervens and P. indica (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Formicidae), and related species. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 105:189-209. PDF
Eguchi, K. 2008. A revision of northern Vietnamese species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 1902:1-118. PDF
Fischer, G.; Fisher, B. L. 2013. A revision of Pheidole Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean and designation of a neotype for the invasive Pheidole megacephala. Zootaxa 3683:301-356. PDF
Santschi, F. 1928a. Formicidae (Fourmis). Insects Samoa 5:41-58. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Fischer, G.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P. 2015. Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution. ZooKeys 543:1-109. 10.3897/zookeys.543.6050 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1932g. Ants from the Society Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 113:13-19. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wheeler, W. M. 1936g. Ants from the Society, Austral, Tuamotu and Mangareva Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 12(18):3-17. PDF
Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF
Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF

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