| Authorship | Santschi, 1928a: 47, fig. 3b | 
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| Forms | s.w.q. | 
| Bioregion | Oceania | 
| Locality | SAMOA | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Samoa: Upolu I., Malololelei, 2000 ft, 19.vi.1924 (no collector’s name, perhaps E.H. Bryan), Samoa: Savai’i I., Safune, 4.v.1924 (E.H. Bryan). Primary type depository: NHMB. | 
| Pheidole oceanica upoluana | Subspecies | 
Synonym
 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pheidole oceanica Mayr, 1866 
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Original combination |