Pheidole longiscapa Forel 1901

Generally occurs in open, highly disturbed areas; generalized forager; nests in ground.

Nicaragua south to Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname; Puerto Rico. Costa Rica: Atlantic and southern Pacific lowlands.

Pheidole longiscapa Forel, 1901j PDF: 358 (s.w.m.) VENEZUELA. Neotropic. Primary type information: Venezuela, Carabobo: Puerto Cabello (Forel) [MHNG, unique specimen identifier CASENT0908185] AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Status as species: Emery, 1922c PDF: 103; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 196; Bolton, 1995b: 324; Wilson, 2003a: 205 (redescription); Longino, 2019 doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1 PDF: 44; Serna et al., 2019 PDF: 971.Senior synonym of Pheidole cocciphaga: Longino, 2019 doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1 PDF: 44.Senior synonym of Pheidole longiscapa martensis: Wilson, 2003a: 205; Longino, 2019 doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1 PDF: 44.Material of the unavailable name Pheidole longiscapa martensis scabrocciput referred here by Wilson, 2003a: 205.