Pogonomyrmex laticeps

Robert A. Johnson, 2015, A taxonomic revision of South American species of the seed-harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Part I, Zootaxa 4029 (1), pp. 1-142 : 79

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4029.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A625A5A9-EE80-45E0-A9BE-7A183B0996B1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6115588

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/971D8786-FFA7-FFF6-65D4-111AD23621DD

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scientific name

Pogonomyrmex laticeps
status

 

Pogonomyrmex laticeps -group

Workers in the P. laticeps -group are diagnosed by the following characters: (1) first gastral tergum lacking striae, (2) head broader than long, (3) interrugae on cephalic dorsum and dorsum of mesosoma smooth to moderately coriarious, weakly shining to shining (granulation and/or punctation absent) or rugae incised, interrugae about as wide as rugae, (4) superior propodeal spines well-developed, and (5) inferior propodeal spines poorly-developed or lacking. The mostly smooth interrugae appear to be the best character to diagnose P. laticeps and P. tinogasta . All three species have brachypterous queens, diagnosed by: (1) poorly-developed mesoscutum, its anterior margin barely surpassing the humeral shoulders of pronotum, (2) pronotum enlarged, and (2) in profile, the pronotum rises at an approximately 45o angle to meet the mesoscutum.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pogonomyrmex

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