Pheidole platypus

Pheidole platypus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Pheidole
Species:	P. platypus
Binomial name
Pheidole platypus Crawley, 1915 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -13.1826° to -13.1826°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Pheidole platypus. Worker. Specimen code casent0901539. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Syntype of Pheidole platypus. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0901540. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

• platypus. Pheidole platypus Crawley, 1915b: 234 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA.

Type Material

• Syntype, worker(s), Stapleton, Northern Territory, Australia, The Natural History Museum.
• Syntype, 4 workers, Stapleton, Northern Territory, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.

References

• Crawley, W. C. 1915b. Ants from north and south-west Australia (G. F. Hill, Rowland Turner) and Christmas Island, Straits Settlements. - Part II. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(15): 232-239. (page 234, soldier, worker described)