Pheidole fuscula

Pheidole fuscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Pheidole
Species:	P. fuscula
Binomial name
Pheidole fuscula Emery, 1900 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -5.26569° to -8°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Not Provided. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0219476. Photographer Adam Lazarus, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EPEC.

Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0219492. Photographer Adam Lazarus, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EPEC.

Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0282525. Photographer Adam Lazarus, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EPEC.

Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0282560. Photographer Adam Lazarus, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EPEC.

Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0282561. Photographer Adam Lazarus, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EPEC.

Syntype of Pheidole fuscula. Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0904295. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Syntype of Pheidole fuscula. Worker. Specimen code casent0904296. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Worker. Specimen code casent0906637. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by HNHM, Budapest, Hungary.

Worker (major/soldier). Specimen code casent0906638. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by HNHM, Budapest, Hungary.

Nomenclature

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

• fuscula. Pheidole fuscula Emery, 1900c: 325 (s.w.) NEW GUINEA.

References

• Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetr. Füz. 23: 310-338 (page 325, soldier, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
• Donisthorpe, Horace. 1943. The Ants of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 (10): 433-475.
• Emery C. 1900. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23: 310-338.
• Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
• Lucky A., L. E. Alonso, E. Sarnat, and J. Hulr. 2015. Ants and scolytine beetles. In: Richards, S.J. and N. Whitmore (editors) 2015. A rapid biodiversity assessment of Papua New Guinea's Hindenburg Wall region. Wildlife Conservation Society Papua New Guinea Program. Goroka, PNG.
• Mann W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391.
• Mann, W.M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College 63: 273-391
• Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.
• Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56