Pheidole pilifera artemisia

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Pheidole pilifera artemisia
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole pilifera)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole pilifera artemisia
Cole, 1933

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Type Specimen Label

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Pheidole pilifera.

Nomenclature

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

  • artemisia. Pheidole pilifera subsp. artemisia Cole, 1933: 616 (s.w.) U.S.A. Cole, 1938c: 372 (q.). Junior synonym of pilifera: Wilson, 2003: 589.

References

  • Cole, A. C., Jr. 1933b. Descriptions of two new ants of the genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 26: 616-618 (page 616, soldier, worker described)
  • Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.: 794pp (page 589, Junior synonym of pilifera)