Pheidole dispar
| Pheidole dispar | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. dispar
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| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole dispar (Forel, 1895)
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Pheidole dispar is a species of rarely-encountered big-headed ant endemic to Australia. Their colonies nest in soil or between rocks in habitats ranging from savanna to rainforest. Little is known about their biology, however they are primarily subterranean in nature.[1][2] Prior to 2015, Pheidole dispar was the sole species of a monotypic genus Machomyrma, however molecular phylogeny places the species within Pheidole.[3]
References
- ^ "Genus: Machomyrma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Shattuck, S. (2000). Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-0-643-06659-5.
- ^ Ward, Philip S.; Brady, Sean G.; Fisher, Brian L.; Schultz, Ted R. (2015). "The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 40 (1): 61–81. Bibcode:2015SysEn..40...61W. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 83986771.
External links
Media related to Machomyrma dispar at Wikimedia Commons