Pheidole Westwood 1840 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1840. Observations on the genus Typhlopone, with descriptions of several exotic species of ants. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:81-89

Parent taxon: Attini according to P. S. Ward et al. 2015

See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Carpenter 1992 and Solórzano Kraemer 2007

Sister taxa: Acanthognathus, Attina, Basiceros, Cephalotes, Strumigenys

Subtaxa: Pheidole anticua Pheidole chaan Pheidole cordata Pheidole pallidula Pheidole pauchil Pheidole plagiaria Pheidole primigenia Pheidole rasnitsyni Pheidole tertiaria Pheidole tethepa

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), Indonesia (1), Tanzania (3)

• Turolian of France (1)

• Miocene of China (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Mexico (3)

• Eocene of United States (1: Colorado)

Total: 15 collections including 17 occurrences

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