Pheidole petax

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Pheidole petax Forel, 1895 valid

Pheidole nemoralis var. petax Forel, 1895i: 488 (s.w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Salata & Fisher, 2020a: 174). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: central Madagascar (no further data) (F. Sikora). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101321 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype minor worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0101322 (same pin as lectotype).

Lectotype designation: Salata & Fisher, 2020a: 174.
Subspecies of Pheidole nemoralis: Emery, 1921c: 90; Wheeler, 1922: 1019; Bolton, 1995b: 327.
Status as species: Salata & Fisher, 2020a: 174 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Pheidole nemoralis petax

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1895i. Quelques fourmis du centre de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:485-488. PDF
Salata, S.; Fisher, B. L. 2020a. Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Madagascar – an introduction and a taxonomic revision of eleven species groups. ZooKeys 905:1-235. 10.3897/zookeys.905.39592 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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