Pheidole bessonii

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Pheidole bessonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: P. bessonii
Binomial name
Pheidole bessonii
Forel, 1891

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Specimen labels

Salata & Fisher (2020) report this species was collected between 30–1732 m elevation, in Uapaca woodland, montane rainforest, tropical dry forest, savanna and woodland, gallery forest and rainforest. Nests were located in rotten logs, in the soil, and under stones. Workers were collected from sifted litter.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Malagasy Region: Madagascar (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Specimen code casent0101329. .
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Syntype of Pheidole oswaldi bessoniiWorker. Specimen code casent0101838. Photographer Michele Esposito, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • bessonii. Pheidole oswaldi r. bessonii Forel, 1891b: 176, pl. 5, fig. 3 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Forel, 1905b: 162 (s.). Raised to species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 88; Forel, 1905b: 162.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Fisher B. L. 1997. Biogeography and ecology of the ant fauna of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 31: 269-302.
  • Fisher B. L. 2003. Formicidae, ants. Pp. 811-819 in: Goodman, S. M.; Benstead, J. P. (eds.) 2003. The natural history of Madagascar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xxi + 1709 pp.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 1005-1055