Pheidole reflexans Santschi, 2007

Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55 : 53

publication ID

21367

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B08DA0DB-EEC0-4ED3-9FBE-59328B034102

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239963

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1B618D24-DD46-0032-985D-2F283C2C03CF

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Thomas

scientific name

Pheidole reflexans Santschi
status

NEW STATUS

Pheidole reflexans Santschi   HNS 1933. NEW STATUS.

Pheidole radoszkowskii var. reflexans Santschi   HNS 1933: 109. [w syntypes examined, NHMB; Argentina, Misiones, Est. Exp. Loreto ] .

Pheidole radoszkowskii var. reflexans Santschi   HNS . Wilson 2003: 221; junior synonym of Pheidole radoszkowskii Mayr   HNS .

Wilson (2003) took a broad view of Pheidole radoszkowskii   HNS and synonymized several names, including Santschi’s variety reflexans   HNS . The evidence for resurrecting P. reflexans   HNS to species is strong, however. Both P. radoszkowskii   HNS and P. reflexans   HNS are locally sympatric across eastern Paraguay, with the former species commonly found in open habitats such as campo cerrado, roadside, and pasture, while the later is restricted to closed forests. Pheidole reflexans   HNS can be one of the most common forest-floor ants and is frequently recovered in sifted litter samples from subtropical tall forests. The morphological differences between the two forms are consistent across eastern Paraguay. Pheidole reflexans   HNS is more gracile, with considerably longer legs and antennal scapes, and in Paraguay is also somewhat more pilose in the major caste, supporting> 10 suberect setae on gastric tergite 1 (= abd. tergite 4). This pilosity difference appears to be regional, as Mayr’s P. radoszkowskii   HNS types from French Guiana (NHMW, examined) are more pilose than the Paraguayan populations of the same species.

NHMB

Switzerland, Basel, Naturhistorisches Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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