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Pheidole fervens

harvester-ant

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: harvester-ant

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Asia; EXOTIC EXOTIC Oceania (incl. Cooks, NZ), N.America

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, forest, coastal, Domestic

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Pest???

SIMILAR SPECIES: Pheidole oceanica is distinguished by its larger size and darker sculpturing. P. megacephala is distinguished by the smooth, shiny head of the soldier ant, in contrast to the rugose head of the P. fervens soldier. (W&T67)

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P		P				P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Pheidole fervens Smith, 1858
SYNONYMS: Pheidole javana; Pheidole oceanica [-under several subspecific epithets]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hymenoptera; Apocrita; Aculeata; Vespoidea; FORMICIDAE, Myrmicinae

More Information

GENERAL NOTE: Several genera are combined under Harvest Ants. Distribution: Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia, Sri Lanka, Oceania

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: TaylorDSIR; specimen - Rhode, B.E.; Berry, J.A. 2000. Ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. Rarotonga: Wilder1925; unknown1937 in W&T67; specimens+photos, major and minor workers, 12/2003, G.McCormack, ID Neil Reimer (Hawaii DoA) as Pheidole fervens, 5/2004.

References:
Special Reference: W&T67,

Data Update History (information):
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Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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