Pheidole megacephala

Pheidole megacephala

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 Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmicinae
Tribus: Pheidolini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole megacephala
Subspecies: P. m. costauriensis – P. m. duplex – P. m. ilgi – P. m. impressifrons – P. m. megacephala – P. m. melancholica – P. m. nkomoana – P. m. rotundata – P. m. scabrior – P. m. speculifrons – P. m. talpa

Name

Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793: 361) [Combination in Pheidole: Roger, 1863b: 30. Senior synonym of trinodis: Roger, 1863b: 30; of edax: Dalla Torre, 1892: 90; Emery, 1892b: 160; of perniciosa: Emery, 1915j: 235; of pusilla (and its junior synonyms janus, laevigata Smith, laevigata Mayr): Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 812; of suspiciosa: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 455; of testacea: Brown, 1981: 530.]

Synonyms

Atta testacea Smith
Formica megacephala Fabricius
Formica (Myrmica) trinodis Losana
Formica edax Forsskål
Myrmica laevigata Smith
Myrmica levigata Roger
Myrmica suspiciosa Smith
Myrmica trinodis Losana
Oecophthora perniciosa Gerstaecker
Oecophthora pusilla Heer
Pheidole janus Smith
Pheidole levigata Roger

References

Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1793: Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 2. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae. 519 pp. (PDF)

Fischer, G.; Fisher, B.L. 2013: A revision of Pheidole Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the islands of the southwest Indian Ocean and designation of a neotype for the invasive Pheidole megacephala. Zootaxa 3683(4): 301–356. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.4.1 Reference page. [neotype]

Additional references

Eguchi, K. 2008: A revision of Northern Vietnamese species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa, 1902: 1–118. Abstract (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
AntWeb: Pheidole (megacephala) megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)

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