Pheidole napoensis, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 725

publication ID

20017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6275510

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scientific name

Pheidole napoensis
status

new species

Pheidole napoensis   HNS new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Named after the Ecuadoran province of origin.

Diagnosis A striking, large member of the tristis   HNS complex, similar to bellatrix   HNS of Colombia and more distantly so to pepo   HNS , rotundiceps   HNS , sphaerica   HNS , and subsphaerica   HNS , variously from Colombia and Ecuador, and distinguished as follows.

Major: promesonotum in side view forms a very large hump towering over the propodeum; antennal scrobes present; humeri very broad and rugoreticulate; postpetiolar node conulate; a patch of rugoreticulum present behind and below the eye.

Minor: unknown.

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 1.70, HL 1.70, SL 0.72, EL 0.20, PW 0.92. Color Major: body and mandibles very dark reddish brown, other appendages brownish yellow.

Range Known only from the type locality.

Biology Unknown.

Figure Unique holotype, major. ECUADOR: 20 kilometers south of Tena, Napo, 600 m (Stewart and Jarmila Kukalova-Peck). Scale bar = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pheidole

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