Biology:Pheidole antipodum
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Short description: Species of ant
| Pheidole antipodum | |
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| Pheidole antipodum worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Pheidole |
| Species: | P. antipodum
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| Binomial name | |
| Pheidole antipodum (Smith, 1858)
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Pheidole antipodum is a species of ant in the genus Pheidole.[1] It is known only from Australia , where the ants nest in drier regions in soil or under rocks. Little is known about their biology, but they are thought to be specialist predators of termites.[2]
It was formerly placed as the sole member of the genus Anisopheidole.[3]
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2015). "Pheidole antipodum". AntCat. http://antcat.org/catalog/430785.
- ↑ Shattuck, S. (2000). Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 125–126. 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)". Systematic Entomology 40 (1): 61–81. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. ISSN 1365-3113. https://escholarship.org/content/qt2tc8r8w8/qt2tc8r8w8.pdf?t=o171ja.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3688592 entry
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