Pheidole pallidula arenarum

Pheidole pallidula arenarum
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole koshewnikovi)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Pheidole
Species:	Pheidole pallidula arenarum Ruzsky, 1905

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

Nomenclature

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

• arenarum. Pheidole pallidula var. arenarum Ruzsky, 1905b: 647 (s.w.m.) TURKMENISTAN, UZBEKISTAN.
  • Karavaiev, 1926b: 106 (q.).
  • Subspecies of pallidula: Emery, 1915j: 226; Emery, 1916b: 149; Emery, 1921f: 86; Ruzsky, 1923: 4; Emery, 1924a: 8; Karavaiev, 1926b: 106; Karavaiev, 1927a: 288; Menozzi, 1933b: 57; Finzi, 1936: 162; Menozzi, 1936d: 279; Finzi, 1939c: 155; Finzi, 1940: 159; Bernard, 1948: 141; Bernard, 1950b: 287; Bernard, 1953a: 147; Pisarski, 1967: 385; Baroni Urbani, 1968b: 448; Pisarski, 1970: 307.
  • Status as species: Collingwood, 1961a: 64; Collingwood, 1961b: 289.
  • Junior synonym of pallidula: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 123.
  • Junior synonym of koshewnikovi: Seifert, 2016b: 13.

References

• Seifert, B. 2016b. Inconvenient hyperdiversity – the traditional concept of “Pheidole pallidula” includes four cryptic species. Soil Organisms 88: 1-17.