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Pheidole
Taxonomy
Pheidole was named by Westwood (1840). It is extant.
It was assigned to Formicidae by Carpenter (1992); to Myrmicinae by Solórzano Kraemer (2007); to Pheidolini by Bolton (2003) and Bolton (2012); and to Attini by Ward et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Formicidae by Carpenter (1992); to Myrmicinae by Solórzano Kraemer (2007); to Pheidolini by Bolton (2003) and Bolton (2012); and to Attini by Ward et al. (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1840 | Pheidole Westwood p. 87 |
| 1992 | Pheidole Carpenter |
| 2003 | Pheidole Bolton p. 64 |
| 2007 | Pheidole Solórzano Kraemer p. 42 |
| 2012 | Pheidole Bolton |
| 2015 | Pheidole Ward et al. p. 77 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Pheidole Westwood 1840
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†Pheidole anticua Casadei-Ferreira et al. 2019
†Pheidole cordata Holl 1829
Pheidole pallidula Nylander 1849
†Pheidole pauchil Varela-Hernández and Riquelme 2021
Pheidole plagiaria Smith 1860
†Pheidole primigenia Baroni Urbani 1995
†Pheidole rasnitsyni Dubovikoff 2011
†Pheidole tertiaria Carpenter 1930
†Pheidole tethepa Wilson 1985
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Holocene or 37.20000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | P. tertiaria (106384) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | P. pauchil (198592) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico | P. sp. 1, P. sp. 2 (21977) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | P. anticua (203120) P. sp., P. primigenia (122474) P. tethepa (138700) | |
| Langhian | China (Fujian) | P. sp. (220273) | |
| Turolian | France (Ardèche) | P. pallidula (172761) | |
| Holocene | Colombia (Santander) | P. sp. (213295) | |
| Holocene | Indonesia | P. plagiaria (182105) | |
| Holocene | Colombia (Boyacá) | P. sp. (215881) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Formica cordata (147705) P. cordata (234540) P. rasnitsyni (124004) |