Pheidole bruchi

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 668

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20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275384

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scientific name

Pheidole bruchi
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Pheidole bruchi View in CoL   HNS Forel

Pheidole bruchi   HNS Forel 1914d: 274. Raised to species level in this monograph: brunnescens   HNS .

Types Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve.

Etymology Named in honor of the Argentine entomologist Carlos Bruch.

Diagnosis Known to me only from a syntype minor, as illustrated (syntype majors could not be located in the Forel Collection).

Closest to and possibly the same as ambigua   HNS (q.v.). Distinguished in the minor caste by the sparse pilosity; propodeal spines reduced to denticles; narrowed occiput with nuchal collar; and the pattern of sculpturing, including the absence of carinulae on the mesosoma.

Measurements (mm) Syntype minor: HW 0.54, HL 0.66, SL 0.74, EL 0.12, PW 0.34.

color Minor: concolorous medium brown, appendages a slightly contrasting yellowish brown.

Range Kempf (1972b) lists bruchi   HNS from Buenos Aires, Cordova, Misiones, Salta, and Tucuman in Argentina.

Biology Unknown.

figure Syntype, minor. ARGENTINA: Rosario de la Frontera, Salta. Scale bar = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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