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
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270253
Pheidole pallidula orientalis
Müller, 1923
Lectotype major worker and 1 paralectotype major worker labelled ‘
Pheidole pallidula arenarum v. orientalis
Emery’, ‘Peloponesus +Iul 5’ [interpretation of poorly legible handwriting of Emery], ‘ANTWEB CASENT 0904193’, ‘SYNTYPUS
Pheidole pallidula arenarum orientalis
Emery’, ‘top specimen: Lectotype
Pheidole pallidula ssp. orientalis Müller 1923
[Emery 1915], des.
B.Seifert 2015
’; stored in Museo Civico die Storia Naturale Genova. The lectotype is photographed in antweb.org under CASENT 0 904193. The pin contains four majors belonging to two species. Counted from top to bottom, these are: 1st = lectotype of
Ph. koshewnikovi
, 2nd = paralectotype of
Ph. koshewnikovi
; 3rd and 4th:
Ph. balcanica
nov. sp.