Pheidole inquilina Forel

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Pheidole inquilina
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Pheidole megacephala atrox)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pheidole
Species: Pheidole inquilina
Forel, 1914

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

Nomenclature

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

  • inquilina. Pheidole inquilina Forel, 1914d: 240 (w.) ZIMBABWE. [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Epipheidole inquilina Wheeler, above.] Junior synonym of atrox: Arnold, 1920a: 425 (in text).

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