Pheidole plagiaria Smith, 1860

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 38

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Pheidole plagiaria Smith, 1860 Figure 19

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: XTBG (21.912°N, 101.282°E), Limestone forest, 06.vi.2013, 2 workers, 640m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Menglun town (21.933°N, 101.269°E), Rubber Plantation, 09.vi.2013, 1 worker, 655m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Kilometer 55 station (21.960°N, 101.199°E), Rain forest, 10.vi.2013, 13 workers, 840m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Kilometer 55 station (21.962°N, 101.200°E), Rain forest, 10.vi.2013, 2 workers, 830m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu.

Distribution.

Widely distributed in the Australasian and Indo-Malayan subregions (Figure 19C).

Taxonomic note.

Pheidole plagiaria can be identified with the identification key to Northern Vietnamese Pheidole provided by Eguchi (2008).

Natural history.

Pheidole plagiaria has been collected from leaf litter from rain forest, limestone forest and rubber plantation. It has also been reported inhabiting in the soil of forest edge and open land ( Eguchi 2008).