Pheidole sensipelada, Longino, 2019

Longino, John T., 2019, Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Middle American Wet Forest, Zootaxa 4599 (1), pp. 1-126 : 57

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5B56E872-FFB8-4A73-FF32-8898FBF8E8ED

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Plazi

scientific name

Pheidole sensipelada
status

sp. nov.

Pheidole sensipelada new species

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Pheidole JTL-251: morphospecies code previously used on AntWeb.

HOLOTYPE: 1 major worker, Costa Rica, San José: Cerro Plano , 9.48446 -83.96228 ± 200 m, 1030 m, 6-Jul- 2015, cloud forest, at bait (ADMAC, Ba-E- 06-2-03-14) [ MUCR, unique specimen identifier CASENT0631275] . PARATYPES: major, minor workers: same data as holotype [ CAS, DZUP, JTLC, MCZC, MUCR, USNM] .

Geographic range. Costa Rica.

Diagnosis. Minor: face smooth and shining; head rounded behind; promesonotal groove present, distinctly impressed; pronotum smooth and shiny; katepisternum foveolate; propodeal spines about one quarter length of posterior face of propodeum; gaster smooth and shining; dorsal mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole with long flexuous erect setae; tibiae with very long erect setae, as long as or longer than twice width of tibia; gastral dorsum with extremely sparse, short, fully appressed pubescence, and either lacking erect setae or with a few long erect setae near postpetiolar insertion; color dark brown to black. Major: inner hypostomal teeth widely spaced, acicular; scape base terete; face almost entirely smooth and shining, with short longitudinal carinulae between eye and antennal fossa; promesonotal groove impressed; propodeal spines about one quarter length of posterior face of propodeum; gastral dorsum smooth and shiny; face with very sparse appressed pubescence similar to gaster; sides and posterior margin of head lacking erect setae; otherwise pilosity similar to minor worker.

Measurements, minor worker: HW 0.68, HL 0.74, SL 0.97, EL 0.18, WL 0.99, PSL 0.06, PTW 0.19, PPW 0.26, CI 91, SI 143, PSLI 9, PPI 134 (n=1).

Measurements, major worker: HW 1.07, HL 1.07, SL 0.85, EL 0.21, WL 1.09, PSL 0.08, PTW 0.32, PPW 0.41, CI 101, SI 80, PSLI 7, PPI 130 (n=1).

Biology. This species occurs in lowland to lower montane wet forest. The few collections are from ground baits and from a beating sample.

Comments. This species has the general habitus of P. sensitiva , with which it is sympatric. It differs from P. sensitiva in larger size (minor worker mean HW 0.68 vs. 0.59) and reduced pilosity.

Etymology: In reference to the very long flexuous setae on the mesosoma.

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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