Pheidole biconstricta hybrida

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Pheidole biconstricta hybrida
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole biconstricta)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole biconstricta hybrida
Emery, 1894

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Pheidole biconstricta.

Nomenclature

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

  • hybrida. Pheidole biconstricta subsp. hybrida Emery, 1894c: 154 (s.w.) BOLIVIA. Borgmeier, 1934: 97 (m.). Junior synonym of biconstricta: Wilson, 2003: 143.

References

  • Borgmeier, T. 1934. Contribuiça~o para o conhecimento da fauna mirmecológica dos cafezais de Paramaribo, Guiana Holandesa (Hym. Formicidae). Arch. Inst. Biol. Veg. (Rio J.) 1: 93-111 (page 97, male described)
  • Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137-241 (page 154, soldier, worker described)
  • Wilson, E. O. 2003. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.: 794pp (page 143, Junior synonym of biconstricta)