Pheidole punctulata

Taxonavigation

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 punctulata
Subspecies: P. p. atrox – P. p. punctulata – P. p. spinosa – P. p. subatrox

Name

Pheidole punctulata Mayr, 1866: 899 [Subspecies of megacephala: Forel, 1894b: 94; Stitz, 1911b: 385; Emery, 1915j: 235; Emery, 1921f: 85; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 132; Santschi, 1930b: 67. Status as species: Forel, 1910e: 441; Santschi, 1914b: 76; Forel, 1914d: 240; Arnold, 1920a: 420; Santschi, 1935a: 256.]

Synonyms

Pheidole megacephala punctulata Mayr
Pheidole megacephala r. punctulata var. angulata Stitz

References

Mayr, G. 1866: Diagnosen neuer und wenig gekannter Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 16: 885–908. 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