Pheidole hitoy, Longino, 2019

Longino, John T., 2019, Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Middle American Wet Forest, Zootaxa 4599 (1), pp. 1-126 : 37

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7CDD24FF-5BA3-4D06-898D-A3E220515D4C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5586192

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5B56E872-FFA4-4A6F-FF32-88E3FDA0E87C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pheidole hitoy
status

sp. nov.

Pheidole hitoy new species

( Plate 38 View PLATE 38 )

Pheidole JTL-245: morphospecies code previously used on AntWeb.

HOLOTYPE: 1 major worker, Costa Rica, Limón: Res. Biol. Hitoy-Cerere, 9.66824 -83.02232 ± 50 m, 170 m, 12-Jun-2015, tropical rainforest, at bait (ADMAC, Ba-E- 02-2-02-15) [ MUCR, unique specimen identifier CASENT0644296] . PARATYPES: major and minor worker: same data as holotype [ JTLC, MCZC, MUCR] ; same data except 9.6671 -83.02202 ± 50 m, 180 m (Ba-E- 02-2-04-06) [ CAS, DZUP, JTLC, USNM] .

Geographic range. Costa Rica.

Diagnosis. Minor: face smooth and shining; head rounded behind, with thin occipital carina; promesonotal groove present, distinctly impressed; anterior face of pronotum foveolate with a few transverse carinulae dorsal face smooth and shining, lateral face mostly smooth with some faint foveolation along ventral margin; katepisternum foveolate; propodeal spines long and thin, about as long as posterior face of propodeum; gaster smooth and shining; mesosomal and gastral dorsum with abundant flexuous erect setae; tibiae with erect setae; color red brown. Major: inner hypostomal teeth widely spaced, acicular; scape base terete; face mostly smooth and shining, with longitudinal carinulae between eye and frontal carinae, irregular faint patches of foveolation elsewhere; propodeal spines about as long as posterior face of propodeum; gastral dorsum smooth and shining; side of head with erect setae; mesosomal and gastral dorsum with abundant flexuous erect setae; tibiae with erect setae.

Measurements, minor worker: HW 0.58, HL 0.70, SL 0.93, EL 0.14, WL 0.92, PSL 0.15, PTW 0.10, PPW 0.17, CI 82, SI 162, PSLI 27, PPI 162 (n=2).

Measurements, major worker: HW 1.18, HL 1.28, SL 0.96, EL 0.18, WL 1.20, PSL 0.17, PTW 0.19, PPW 0.28, CI 92, SI 81, PSLI 14, PPI 149 (n=2).

Biology. This species occurs in lowland rainforest. Minor and major workers recruit to ground baits.

Comments. This species is very similar to P. indagatrix , differing in the longer propodeal spines (minor worker PSLI ~27 vs. <20).

Etymology: From the type locality.

MUCR

Museo de Insectos

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

DZUP

Universidade Federal do Parana, Colecao de Entomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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