Rasopone breviscapa (MacKay and MacKay)

(Fig. 13; Supp Fig. S2 [online only])

Pachycondyla breviscapa MacKay and MacKay, 2010: 220, figs. 347, 349.

HOLOTYPE: 1 queen, Bolivia, La Paz: Tumupasa,

XII 1921, W. M. Mann, Mulford Expedition [USNM, AntWeb images examined].

Rasopone breviscapa: Schmidt and Shattuck, 2014: 210 .

Measurements, queen: HW 1.7, HL 1.7, SL 1.35, CI 100, SI 79 (n = 1) (from MacKay and MacKay, 2010).

Comments

This species is known only from the type queen. Rasopone breviscapa, R. rupinicola, and R. titanis are the largest species in the genus, with HW ~1.7. Rasopone breviscapa has the anterior clypeal margin truncate, mandibles striate, and petiole intermediate between cuboidal and scale-like. It is differentiated from R. rupinicola (Fig. 13; Supp Figs. S30 and S31 [online only]) by the shorter scapes (SI 79 vs 106), and from R. titanis (Fig. 13; Supp Fig. S33 [online only]) by the truncate clypeal margin and striate mandibles.