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]

Pheidole antipodum
Pheidole antipodum worker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Pheidole
Species:
P. antipodum
Binomial name
Pheidole antipodum
(Smith, 1858)

It was formerly placed as the sole member of the genus Anisopheidole.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Pheidole antipodum". AntCat. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. ^ Shattuck, S. (2000). Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-643-06659-5.
  3. ^ 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. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. ISSN 1365-3113.
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