Pheidole opaca incrustata

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Pheidole opaca incrustata
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole vorax)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole opaca incrustata
Forel, 1908

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

Nomenclature

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

  • incrustata. Pheidole opaca var. incrustata Forel, 1908b: 59 (w.) COSTA RICA. Subspecies of cephalica: Kempf, 1972a: 188. Junior synonym of cephalica: Wilson, 2003: 674; of vorax: Longino, 2009: 86.

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