Pheidole knowlesi extensa

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Pheidole knowlesi extensa
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole knowlesi)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole knowlesi extensa
Mann, 1921

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

Nomenclature

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

  • extensa. Pheidole knowlesi subsp. extensa Mann, 1921: 438 (s.w.) FIJI IS. Junior synonym of knowlesi: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 98.

References

  • Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499 (page 438, soldier, worker described)
  • Sarnat, E.M. & Economo, E.P. 2012. The ants of Fiji: 384 pp. UC Publications in Entomology, University of California Press.