Pheidole rutilana ^HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

etymology L rutilana ^HNS, red, alluding to the color of the major.

diagnosis Similar in various traits to amata ^HNS, ambigua ^HNS, celaena ^HNS, fera ^HNS, germaini ^HNS, peruviana ^HNS, schwarzmaieri ^HNS, superba ^HNS, and vomer ^HNS, differing as follows.

Major: yellowish red; head in full-face view quadrate, almost as wide as long and with shallow occipital cleft; humeri in dorsaloblique view prominent, raised as large equilateral triangles; center of promesonotal profde in side view slightly raised as an obtuse angle; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; rugoreticulum present between eye and antennal fossa on each side of head; posterior fourth of dorsal head surface smooth.

Minor: occiput only slightly narrowed but possesses nuchal collar; humeri in dorsal-oblique view dentate; center of promesonotal profile in side view slightly raised as an obtuse angle; almost all of head as well as all of pronotum smooth and shiny. measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.04, HL 1.06, SL 0.62, EL 0.14, PW 0.60. Paratype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.56, SL 0.58, EL 0.10, PW 0.34. Color Major: concolorous yellowish red. Minor: concolorous light reddish brown.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Collected from rainforest canopy.

Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. BRAZIL: Taperinha, Para (Robert L. Jeanne). Scale bars = 1 mm.