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Species: Pheidole exigua   Mayr, 1884 

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)

Pheidole exigua Mayr, 1884 PDF: 36 (s.) FRENCH GUIANA. Neotropic. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Wheeler, 1908a PDF: 135 (w.q.).
Status as species: Mayr, 1887 PDF: 585 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 90; Emery, 1894h PDF: 389; Wilson, 2003a: 416 (redescription); LaPolla & Cover, 2005 PDF: 371; Bezděčková et al., 2015 PDF: 119; Wetterer et al., 2016 PDF: 14.
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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Brazil, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Pheidole exigua n. sp.  Radoszkowsky, O., 1884, Fourmis de Cayenne Française., Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 18, pp. 30-39: 36-37, (download) 36-37 1929
Pheidole exigua   Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. -1--1: 416-417, (download) 416-417 20017

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 2 times found in wet cloud forest, 2 times found in wet trop. forest, 2 times found in beach, 2 times found in forest, 1 times found in Swamp, 1 times found in ball field, 1 times found in cacao plantation, 1 times found in waterfront.

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 5 times ex sifted leaf litter, 1 times under epiphytes, 1 times Ground.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 5 times Winkler, 1 times Winkler48h.

Elevations: collected from 20 - 728 meters, 566 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 2007-01-01 and 2018-10-19

Type specimens: Lectotype Pheidole exigua: casent0601288; Paralectotype Pheidole exigua: casent0601289; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Pheidole flavens exigua jheringi: casent0904412, casent0904413



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