Pheidole gangamon, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 626

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509409

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/14364860-E633-0AFF-CCDD-6A5755910387

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scientific name

Pheidole gangamon
status

new species

Pheidole gangamon   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Gr gangamon   HNS , a small, round net, referring to the occipital rugoreticulum of the major.

Diagnosis Close to arctos   HNS , but distinguishable from it (and other members of the scrobifera   HNS group) by the pattern of sculpturing and details of body form in the major, and in the unusually long, needle-like propodeal spines and piligerous cornicles of the humeri, also as shown.

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.24, HL 1.54, SL 0.58, EL 0.16, PW 0.72. Paratype minor: HW 0.58, HL 0.58, SL 0.58, EL 0.12, PW 0.38. color Major: body and appendages medium reddish brown; gaster dark brown. Minor: light brown.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology The nest of the type colony was in black clayey soil in the middle of a path through degraded lowland rainforest. The single entrance hole was surrounded by a narrow ring of excavated earth. Major workers were scarce (E. O. Wilson).

figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. MEXICO: Pueblo Nuevo, near Tetzonapa (E. O. Wilson). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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