Pheidole grantae, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 700

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275456

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scientific name

Pheidole grantae
status

new status

Pheidole grantae   HNS Forel, new status

Pheidole crassipes r. grantae   HNS Forel 1908c: 53.

Types Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve.

Etymology Eponymous, but no person specified.

Diagnosis A large, blackish brown member of the tristis   HNS group with exceptionally large, bell-shaped postpetiolar node, prominent convex subpostpetiolar convexity, prominent subangular pronotal humeri, and fully shagreened and opaque first gastral tergite. Major: sculpturing of dorsal surface of the head reaches posteriorly to just short of the occiput.

Similar to alpinensis   HNS , exarata   HNS , excubitor   HNS , germaini   HNS , grandinodus   HNS , obrima   HNS , rogeri   HNS , stulta   HNS , tristis   HNS , and zoster   HNS , differing in many details of body form, sculpturing, and pilosity, as illustrated, and in color.

Measurements (mm) Syntype major: HW 1.60, HL 1.60, SL 0.86, EL 0.20, PW 0.80. Syntype minor: HW 0.76, HL 0.86, SL 0.80, EL 0.12, PW 0.48. color Major: blackish brown, mesosoma and appendages with reddish undertones. Minor: blackish brown, appendages light to medium brown.

Range Known only from the type locality in Costa Rica and the Colombian locality cited in the figure caption.

Biology The Reserva Natura El Guayaba series was collected in montane rainforest.

figure Upper: major. Lower: minor. COLOMBIA: Reserva Natura El Guayaba, Cali-Popayan, Cauca, 1600 m (Richard Root and W. L. Brown). Compared with syntypes in Museum Histoire Naturelle, Geneve. (Type locality: Costa del Tablazo, Costa Rica, collected by Paul Biolley). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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