Pheidole rotundiceps, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 744

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275558

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scientific name

Pheidole rotundiceps
status

new species

Pheidole rotundiceps   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology L rotundiceps   HNS , round head.

diagnosis A very large, yellow member of the tristis   HNS group, similar to pepo   HNS , sphaerica   HNS , and subsphaerica   HNS , easily distinguished by the following traits.

Major: head capsule nearly circular in outline; the entire outline of the head in full-face view almost completely devoid of pilosity; entire head posterior to the level of the eye sparsely covered by rows of elongate foveae; postpetiolar node seen from above bluntly cone-shaped.

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 2.34, HL 2.24, SL 1.10, EL 0.30, PW 0.98. color Major: concolorous light reddish yellow (light "orange").

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Unknown.

Figure Holotype, major. ECUADOR: Tinalandia, 16 km southeast of Domingo de los Colorados (Stewart B. and Jarmila Kukalova-Peck). Scale bar = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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