Inconvenient hyperdiversity - the traditional concept of “ PheIdole pallIdula ” includes four cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Author
Bernhard Seifert
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Soil Organisms
2016
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journal article
39144
10.5281/zenodo.270253
be6d3869-eeaa-4921-ae09-29094525c23d
270253
Pheidole jordanica
Saulcy, 1874
P. jordanica
has been described from Jericho, Israel. The morphological description states the eyes to have twice the size and the segments of antennal club to have 1.5 fold the length observed in
P. pallidula
and the carinulae on head extending to hind vertex. This excludes a synonymy with any member of the
P. pallidula
complex. Future revisers should check a synonymy with
Ph. sinaitica
.