Pheidole balcanica, Bernhard Seifert, 2016

Bernhard Seifert, 2016, Inconvenient hyperdiversity - the traditional concept of “ PheIdole pallIdula ” includes four cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Soil Organisms 88 (1), pp. 1-18 : 4

Pheidole balcanica sp. nov.

Holotype, a major worker, labelled ‘Holotype Pheidole balcanica Seifert , des. B. Seifert 2015 ’, ‘CRO: 45.08710°N, 14.84735°E, Smokvica Krmpotska-400 m W, 8 m, Wegrand, unter Stein, Juniperus, Gras, niedriger Wald, Seifert 2014.07.29–85’. Paratypes: 2 mounted major workers, 3 mounted minor workers, 7 ethanolstored majors and 16 ethanol-stored minors from the holotype nest with the same locality label; all material in Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz.