Pheidole cubaensis grayi

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Pheidole cubaensis grayi
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole cubaensis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole cubaensis grayi
Mann, 1920

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

Nomenclature

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

  • grayi. Pheidole cubaensis var. grayi Mann, 1920: 426 (s.w.) CUBA. [Unresolved junior primary homonym of grayi Forel, above.] Junior synonym of cubaensis: Wilson, 2003: 624.

References

  • Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 403-439 (page 426, 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 624, Junior synonym of cubaensis)