Pheidole moerens
| Pheidole moerens | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. moerens
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| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole moerens Wheeler, 1908
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Pheidole moerens is a species of big-headed ant described by myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler in 1908.[1]
This species of ant is native to Venezuela and the Caribbean Islands. It previously contained three subspecies, however, all three were synonymized under the parent taxon by Wilson, 2003.[2][3][4][5][6][7] It was originally thought to be invasive in California, the southeastern United States, and Hawaii, however those populations were later found to be a different species, Pheidole navigans.[8]
References
- ^ "Pheidole moerens - AntWiki". www.antwiki.org. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
- ^ "Pheidole moerens Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "Pheidole moerens species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "Pheidole moerens". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "Pheidole moerens Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ Economo, Evan; Guénard, Benoit. "antmaps.org Pheidole moerens". antmaps.org. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ Sarnat, Eli M.; Fischer, Georg; Guénard, Benoit; Economo, Evan P. (9 December 2015). "Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution". ZooKeys (543): 1–109. Bibcode:2015ZooK..543....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.543.6050. PMC 4714327. PMID 26798286.
Further reading
- Bolton, B. (2016). "Catalogue of the Ants of the World" (PDF). unpublished communication. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
External links
- Media related to Pheidole moerens at Wikimedia Commons