Pheidole pilifera

Taxonavigation

Pheidole pilifera workers. Scale: 1mm.

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmicinae
Tribus: Pheidolini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole pilifera

Name

Pheidole pilifera (Roger, 1863a: 180) [Combination in Pheidole: Emery, 1895c: 290. Senior synonym of pennsylvanica: Emery, 1895c: 290; of septentrionalis: Creighton, 1950a: 186; of artemisia, coloradensis, pacifica: Wilson, 2003: 589.]

Synonyms

• Leptothorax pilifer Roger
• Pheidole xerophila pacifica Wheeler
• Pheidole pennsylvanica Roger
• Pheidole pilifera artemisia Cole
• Pheidole pilifera coloradensis Emery
• Pheidole pilifera septentrionalis Wheeler
• Pheidole pilifera pacifica Wheeler

References

• Roger, J. 1863: Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses, nebst Ergänzung einiger früher gegeben Beschreibungen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 7: 131–214. pdf
• Wilson, E.O. 2003: Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 794 pp. Harvard Catalog Page
• Eguchi, K. 2008: A revision of Northern Vietnamese species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa, 1902: 1–118. Abstract