Pheidole servilia, Wilson, E. O., 2003

Wilson, E. O., 2003, Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press : 507

Pheidole servilia new species

Types Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard.

Etymology Named after Julius Caesar's mistress, and powerful political figure following the assassination.

diagnosis Similar in various ways to albipes , alticola , browni , cardiella , chalca , euryscopa , hedlundorum , lustrata , monteverdensis , and palenquensis , differing as follows.

Major: head subrectangular in full-face view; eye set far forward on head; in side view, carinulae originate on lower anterior margin of eye and just above it curve and travel mesally; profile of promesonotum almost perfectly semicircular; propodeal spines mediumlong and thin; postpetiole from above diamond-shaped; almost all of dorsal surface of head, including occiput, carinulate; all of mesosoma and almost all of dorsal head surface foveolate.

Minor: eye very far forward on head, its distance from the anterior genal border much less than an Eye Length; promesonotal profile a nearly perfect semicircle; propodeal spines medium-length and thin; dorsal surface of head and most of mesosoma variably foveolate.

Measurements (mm) Holotype major: HW 0.60, HL 0.66, SL 0.34, EL 0.08, PW 0.34.

Paratype minor: HW 0.42, HL 0.44, SL 0.36, EL 0.08, PW 0.26.

color Major: body medium reddish yellow, appendages light reddish yellow.

Minor: concolorous plain medium yellow.

Range Known only from the type locality.

biology Found in montane rainforest.

Figure Upper: holotype, major. Lower: paratype, minor. COLOMBIA: Represa Calima, above the dam, Valle, 1600 m (W. L. Brown and R. B. Root). Scale bars = 1 mm.