Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 2 valid subspecies
Myrmica pallidula Nylander, 1849 PDF: 42 (w.) ITALY (Sicily). Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype minor workers. Primary type locality: Italy: Sicily, Messina (
Zeller?). Primary type depository: ZMHF.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 455 (redescription);
Nylander, 1856b PDF: 97;
Gredler, 1858 PDF: 29;
Smith, 1858b PDF: 282;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 173;
Roger, 1862c PDF: 294;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 30;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 441;
Emery, 1869b PDF: 19;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 169;
Forel, 1874 PDF: 81 (in key);
André, 1874c: 198 (in key);
Mayr, 1877a: 20 (in list);
Emery, 1878a PDF: x (in list);
Emery, 1878: 58;
Emery, 1880 PDF: 398;
Emery, 1881b PDF: 534;
André, 1881c PDF: 76;
André, 1883b: 383 (in key);
Costa, 1883: 60;
Forel, 1886e PDF: clxviii;
Forel, 1889 PDF: 257;
Nasonov, 1889: 39;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 94;
Medina, 1893 PDF: 105;
Forel, 1894d PDF: 27;
Forel, 1895e PDF: 227, 233;
Forel, 1902a PDF: 154;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 26;
Ruzsky, 1903b PDF: 310;
Forel, 1903b PDF: 458;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 373;
Forel, 1904d PDF: 5;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 643;
Forel, 1906c PDF: 189;
Forel, 1907d PDF: 21;
Emery, 1908e PDF: 24;
Forel, 1909c PDF: 104;
Karavaiev, 1911a PDF: 61;
Santschi, 1910e PDF: 649;
Forel, 1911f PDF: 339;
Karavaiev, 1912b PDF: 582;
Krausse, 1912c PDF: 162;
Forel, 1913d PDF: 430;
Emery, 1914c PDF: 156;
Forel, 1915d: 33 (in key);
Emery, 1915i PDF: 226;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 149;
Karavaiev, 1916a PDF: 503;
Wheeler & Mann, 1916 PDF: 170;
Stitz, 1917 PDF: 339;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 166;
Donisthorpe, 1918c PDF: 166;
Menozzi, 1921 PDF: 26;
Emery, 1921c PDF: 86;
Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 327;
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 36;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b PDF: 255;
Müller, 1923a PDF: 69;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 67;
Finzi, 1924a PDF: 13;
Emery, 1924b PDF: 12;
Emery, 1924c PDF: 164;
Lomnicki, 1925b PDF: 2;
Donisthorpe, 1926a PDF: 7;
Wheeler, 1926a PDF: 3;
Santschi, 1926f PDF: 287;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 86 (in key);
Karavaiev, 1927a PDF: 288;
Kutter, 1927a PDF: 99;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 44;
Finzi, 1930d PDF: 313;
Santschi, 1931a: 5;
Santschi, 1932e PDF: 70;
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 100;
Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 19;
Santschi, 1936c PDF: 200;
Finzi, 1936 PDF: 162;
Wheeler, 1937c PDF: 38;
Finzi, 1940 PDF: 159;
Bernard, 1945b PDF: 133;
Athias-Henriot, 1947 PDF: 249;
Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF: 1061;
Consani & Zangheri, 1952 PDF: 40;
Ceballos, 1956: 302;
Bernard, 1956b PDF: 258;
Bernard, 1959a PDF: 346;
Baroni Urbani, 1964a PDF: 3;
Baroni Urbani, 1964b PDF: 42;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 152;
Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 88;
Cagniant, 1966b PDF: 279;
Pisarski, 1967a PDF: 385;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 153 (redescription);
Baroni Urbani, 1968e PDF: 446;
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 143;
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 59;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 65;
Pisarski, 1970a PDF: 307;
Cagniant, 1970a PDF: 417;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 70;
Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 232;
Baroni Urbani, 1976b PDF: 211;
Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 68 (redescription);
Aktaç, 1977 PDF: 121;
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key);
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 77 (in key);
Schembri & Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 427;
Bolton, 1987 PDF: 291;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 54;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 272 (in key);
Kugler, 1988 PDF: 257;
Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 229;
Le Moli & Rosi, 1991: 30;
Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 123;
Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 194;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 41;
Bolton, 1995b: 327;
Mei, 1995 PDF: 762;
Poldi et al., 1995: 3;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 31;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 15;
Mohamed et al., 2001 PDF: 54;
Markó & Csosz, 2002 PDF: 115;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 139;
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 197;
Markó et al., 2006 PDF: 70;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 93 (in key);
Schultz et al., 2006 PDF: 206;
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 18;
Radchenko, 2007 PDF: 33;
Wetterer et al., 2007 PDF: 19;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 141;
Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 155;
Borowiec et al., 2009 PDF: 378;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 492;
Lush, 2009 10.1080/09397140.2009.10638357: 116;
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010 PDF: 44;
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 16;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 49;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 12;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 526;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 23;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 143 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 15;
Lebas et al., 2016: 332;
Radchenko, 2016: 175;
Seifert, 2016b PDF: 13;
Sharaf et al., 2017 10.1080/00222933.2016.1271157 PDF: 34;
Borowiec & Salata, 2018a 10.5281/zenodo.1481802 PDF: 7;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 48;
Seifert, 2018: 181.
Senior synonym of
Pheidole subdentata:
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 456;
Nylander, 1856b PDF: 97;
Smith, 1858b PDF: 282;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 173;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 441;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 30;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 169;
André, 1874c: 204 (in list);
Forel, 1874 PDF: 101 (in list);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 463;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 94;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 643;
Forel, 1915d: 33 (in key);
Emery, 1915i PDF: 226;
Emery, 1921c PDF: 86;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 70;
Bolton, 1995b: 327;
Radchenko, 2016: 175;
Seifert, 2016b PDF: 13.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria,
Canary Islands,
Morocco Americas: Mexico,
United States Asia: Afghanistan,
Armenia,
Georgia,
Iran,
Israel,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Turkey,
Turkmenistan,
Yemen Europe: Albania,
Andorra,
Balearic Islands,
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
France,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Italy,
Macedonia,
Malta,
Monaco,
Montenegro,
Portugal,
Romania,
Russia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Switzerland Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical,
Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
Submediterranean SLO
Biology:
Mostly open xerothermous habitats, often in urban areas, nests in (stony) ground, in rock/wall crevices
Notes:
(Dutch vernacular name: gewone dikkop)
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Pheidole pallidula |
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Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum: 173, (download) |
173 |
8127
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Pheidole pusilla |
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Emery, C., 1915, Les Pheidole du groupe megacephala (Formicidae)., Revue de Zoologie Africaine 4, pp. 223-250: 226-231, (download) |
226-231 |
3875
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Pheidole pallidula |
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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 6, (download) |
6 |
3994
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Pheidole pallidula |
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Emery, C., 1884, Materiali per lo studio della fauna Tunisina raccolti da G. e L. Doria. III. Rassegna delle formiche della Tunisia., Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) 21, pp. 373-386: 385, (download) |
385 |
3743
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Pheidole pallidula |
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Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61: 54, (download) |
54 |
21622
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Pheidole pallidula |
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Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 155, (download) |
155 |
21820
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Pheidole pallidula |
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Emery, C., 1915, Les Pheidole du groupe megacephala (Formicidae)., Revue de Zoologie Africaine 4, pp. 223-250: 226, (download) |
226 |
3875
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 10 times found in Ruderal, 10 times found in Encinar, 8 times found in Pinar, 3 times found in Urbanización (césped), 4 times found in Pinus halepensis+pistacea lentiscus, 5 times found in maquis shrubland, 5 times found in Garden, 3 times found in Plantación palmeras, 4 times found in Cottonwood-willow forest, 3 times found in Urbano, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 35 times Foraging, 25 times under stone, 16 times under rock, 10 times nbp, 7 times Nido bajo piedra, 7 times Nest under stone, 4 times Bajo piedra, 3 times Forrajeando, 2 times Nido en la arena, 1 times nest under rock, 2 times Nest, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 125 times Hand, 26 times search, 9 times Pitfall, 2 times hand collecting, 2 times by hand, 1 times Tuna bait, 1 times Winkler, 1 times 6L sifted litter, extracted in Winkler sack over 14 hours.
Elevations: collected from 1 - 1875 meters, 484 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1883-11-11 00:00:00.0 and 2020-08-14 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Not Provided: antweb1008107, antweb1008108, casent0282688, casent0283201, casent0283442, casent0283480; Pheidole pallidula obscura: replacement name for Pheidole pallidula var. emeryi Krausse, 1912: casent0913386, casent0913387; quadrinomial: Pheidole pallidula arenarum aurata: casent0913384, casent0913385; syntype of Oecophthora subdentata: antweb1038029, casent0916045; syntype of Pheidole pallidula obscura: casent0913388, casent0913389; type of Pheidole pallidula cicatricosa: focol1289, focol1290, focol1291, focol1292; Type of unpublished name: Pheidole pallidula gaudens: casent0913390, casent0913391
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