Pheidole longiscapa martensis

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

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

Nomenclature

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

  • martensis. Pheidole longiscapa r. martensis Forel, 1914c: 615 (s.w.) COLOMBIA. Junior synonym of longiscapa: Wilson, 2003: 205.

References

  • Forel, A. 1914c. Einige amerikanische Ameisen. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1914: 615-620 (page 615, soldier, worker 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 205, Junior synonym of longiscapa)