Pheidole neolongiceps Brown, 1950

Brown, W. L., 1950, Morphological, taxonomic and other notes on ants., Wasmann Journal of Biology 8, pp. 241-250 : 250

Pheidole neolongiceps Brown , new name.

Pheidole longiceps Aguayo , 1932, Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 27:218-219, soldier; preoccupied by Mayr, 1876, Journal des Museum Godeffroy, 10:106.

Aguayo described this homonym from a single soldier, the holotype of which is now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. It is entirely possible that it is synonymous with some tropicolitan or neotropical tramp species in the enormous genus, although a very hasty and superficial search in the Wheeler Collection failed to reveal any exactly similar form among the West Indian Pheidole deposited there. The entire dorsal surface of the head is regularly set with well-spaced, predominantly longitudinal rugules. Dr. Aguayo has failed to answer three separate letters regarding this form, so I feel justified in suggesting a new name for it.