Inconvenient hyperdiversity - the traditional concept of “ PheIdole pallIdula ” includes four cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Author
Bernhard Seifert
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Soil Organisms
2016
88
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journal article
39144
10.5281/zenodo.270253
be6d3869-eeaa-4921-ae09-29094525c23d
270253
Pheidole
pallidula tasdelenia
Özdikmen, 2010
Replacement name for
Pheidole tristis
Forel, 1907
[Junior secondary homonym of
Pheidole tristis
S
mith, 1858].
It was described from Kairouan, Tunisia on the basis of a single specimen considered by Forel as a microgyne (2.6–2.8 mm total length). The status of this problematic specimen cannot be cleared up without very extensive investigations of the Tunisian
Pheidole
populations.