Philidris cordata

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 *  cordata. Formica cordata Smith, F. 1859a: 137 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru I.). [Unresolved junior primary homonym of †Formica cordata Holl, 1829: 140 (Bolton, 1995b: 334).] Emery, 1887a: 250 (q.m.); Imai, Brown, et al. 1984: 68 (k.). Combination in Hypoclinea: Mayr, 1879: 659; in Iridomyrmex: Emery, 1887a: 249; in Philidris: Shattuck, 1992a: 18. Current subspecies: nominal plus fusca, protensa, stewartii. See also: Karavaiev, 1926d: 435; Tjan, Imai, et al. 1986: 58; Shattuck, 1994: 136.

Type Material


Formica cordata

Seven worker syntypes (on three cards) in. Labelled “Aru.”