Pheidole metallescens

Pheidole metallescens is an ant, a species of higher myrmicine in the family Formicidae.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Pheidole metallescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Genus:	Pheidole
Species:	P. metallescens
Binomial name
Pheidole metallescens Emery, 1895

Subspecies

• Pheidole metallescens metallescens Emery, 1895
• Pheidole metallescens splendidula Wheeler, 1908

References

1. "Pheidole metallescens Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
2. "Pheidole metallescens Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
3. Sharkey M.J. (2007). Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera.
4. "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera", Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.
5. Ward, P.S. (2007). "Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants". Zootaxa 1668 549–563
6. "AntWeb". antweb.org. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
7. Bolton, B., Alpert, G., Ward, S. Naskrecki, P. (2007). A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World 1758–2005
8. Riley, Edward G., Clark, Shawn M., and Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi. 176.

• Hansson C, Lachaud J, Pérez-Lachaud G (2011). "Entedoninae wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) associated with ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in tropical America, with new species and notes on their biology". ZooKeys 134: 62-82.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.