Pheidole tayrona, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 518

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6276371

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pheidole tayrona
status

new species

Pheidole tayrona   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

etymology Named after the Tayrona   HNS Park, in the region of origin.

Diagnosis A small, medium-brown member of the flavens   HNS group with yellow appendages, marked in the major by distinct antennal scrobes with rugoreticulum confined to a small region just posterior to the scrobes.

Similar to charazana   HNS of Colombia but the major differs in its lack of rugoreticulum on the humerus, shorter head, and more prominent mesonotal convexity.

See also bruchella   HNS , kuna   HNS , micon   HNS , and tillandsiarum   HNS .

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.74, HL 0.80, SL 0.44, EL 0.12, PW 0.38. color Major and minor: body medium brown, appendages yellow.

range Known only from the type locality.

biology Unknown.

Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. COLOMBIA: Pueblito to south boundary of Tayrona Park, Magdalena (C. Kugler). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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