Pheidole occipitalis

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Pheidole occipitalis André, 1890 valid

Pheidole occipitalis André, 1890: 321 (s.w.) SIERRA LEONE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Sierra Leone: (no further data) (A. Mocquerys). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHN. Primary type specimens: CASENT0907825, CASENT0907826.

Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 93; Mayr, 1896: 241 (in key); Emery, 1921c: 89; Wheeler, 1922: 817; Bolton, 1995b: 326.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

P. o. adami Santschi, 1939
P. o. neutralis Santschi, 1914

Citations

André, Ern. 1890. Matériaux pour servir à la faune myrmécologique de Sierra-Leone (Afrique occidentale). Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9:311-327. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Mayr, G. 1896. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. 5. Formiciden gesammelt von Herrn Yngve Sjöstedt. Entomologisk Tidskrift 17:225-252. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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