Pheidole bucolica

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Pheidole bucolica
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole rudigenis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole bucolica
Santschi, 1929

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

Nomenclature

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

  • bucolica. Pheidole bucolica Santschi, 1929d: 289, figs. 19-21 (s.) BRAZIL. Junior synonym of rudigenis: Wilson, 2003: 498.

References

  • Santschi, F. 1929d. Nouvelles fourmis de la République Argentine et du Brésil. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 107: 273-316 (page 289, figs. 19-21 soldier 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 498, Junior synonym of rudigenis)